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ἔπεστι (epesti)

ἔπεστι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔπειμι, meaning “be upon; come upon, approach”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.842: τύμβος· σῆμα δʼ ἔπεστι καὶ ὀψιγόνοισιν ἰδέσθαι,

Pindar, Nemean 7.23: σεμνὸν ἔπεστί τι· σοφία δὲ κλέπτει παράγοισα μύθοις· τυφλὸν δʼ ἔχει

All forms of ἔπειμι (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.