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ἔπεστιν (epestin)

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

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 22·2: … παρὰ τοῦ φίλου χάρις ὥσπερ ζῷον ἐν βάθει τὰς κυριωτάτας ἔχει δυνάμεις, ἐπιδεικτικὸν δὲ καὶ πανηγυρικὸν οὐδὲν ἔπεστιν ἀλλὰ πολλάκις, ὥσπερ ἰατρὸς λαθὼν ἐθεράπευσε , καὶ φίλος ὠφέλησεν ἐντυχὼν ἢ διαλυσάμενος, ἀγνοοῦντος ἐπιμεληθ …

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.