ἔπεσεν (epesen)

ἔπεσεν is an Ancient Greek form of πίπτω, meaning “to fall”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89.7: πολλὰ δὲ καὶ στρατόπεδα ἤδη ἔπεσεν ὑπ’ ἐλασσόνων τῇ ἀπειρίᾳ, ἔστι δὲ ἃ καὶ τῇ ἀτολμίᾳ· ὧν οὐδετέρου ἡμεῖς νῦν μετέχομεν.

New Testament, Revelation 14.8: Καὶ ἄλλος δεύτερος [ἄγγελος] ἠκολούθησεν λέγων Ἔπεσεν, ἔπεσεν Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη, ἣ ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ θυμοῦ τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς πεπότικεν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη.

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 3.333: ἀναίμακτον δʼ ἂν ἦν αὐχῆσαι Ῥωμαίοις τὸ τέλος τῆς πολιορκίας, εἰ μὴ κατὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν εἷς ἔπεσέν τις· ἑκατοντάρχης ἦν Ἀντώνιος, θνήσκει δʼ ἐξ ἐνέδρας.

All forms of πίπτω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.