ἔφθασαν (ephthasan)

ἔφθασαν is an Ancient Greek form of φθάνω, meaning “come first, anticipate”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

It can also be a form of φθάζω, “(garbled form)”.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.112.1: … ιν τὸν μὲν μείζω νυκτὸς ἐπιγενομένης οἱ προαποσταλέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ Δημοσθένους ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου ἔλαθόν τε καὶ ἔφθασαν προκαταλαβόντες (τὸν δ’ ἐλάσσω ἔτυχον οἱ Ἀμπρακιῶται προαναβάντες) καὶ ηὐλίσαντο.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 10.53.7: … ὺς Αἰκανοὶ καὶ διεπρεσβεύοντο πρὸς τἆλλα ἔθνη, ὅσα Ῥωμαίοις πολέμια ἦν, παρακαλοῦντες ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον. οὐ μὴν ἔφθασάν γε προαγαγεῖν τὴν δύναμιν ἐκ τῶν πόλεων. ἔτι γὰρ αὐτῶν παρασκευαζομένων ἡ αὐτὴ νόσος κατέσκηψεν εἰς τὰς πόλει …

All forms of φθάνω (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.