ἔπρεπε (eprepe)

ἔπρεπε is an Ancient Greek form of πρέπω, meaning “stand out, be fitting”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.35: ἔπρεπε θηλυτέραις, ὄφελος μέγα γειναμένοισι.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 13.3: … όφου. εἰπέ, ὦ Χηνίδα, τίνι με τότε πάντες εἴκαζον; Τίνι δὲ ἄλλῳ ἢ Ἀχιλλεῖ νὴ Δία τῷ Θέτιδος καὶ Πηλέως; οὕτως ἔπρεπέ μέν σοι ἡ κόρυς, ἡ φοινικὶς δὲ ἐπήνθει καὶ ἡ πέλτη ἐμάρμαιρεν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ συνέστημεν, ὁ βάρβαρος πρότερος τιτρώσ …

All forms of πρέπω (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.