ἔφθη (ephthe)

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

Found 105 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.584: ἀλλά μιν ἔφθη Τῖφυς ὑπʼ εἰρεσίῃ βαρύθουσαν

Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis 5: … νει κατὰ τὴν τοῦ θώρηκος ἴξιν. Ὀλισθηροτάτη τε καὶ ἀδιψοτάτη καὶ εὐπεπτοτάτη καὶ ἀσθενεστάτη ἐστὶν ἡ κάλλιστα ἑφθὴ, ὧν πάντων δεῖ. ἢν οὖν μὴ προστιμωρήσῃ τις ὁκόσων δέεται αὐτάρκης εἶναι ὁ τρόπος τῆς τοιαύτης πτισανοῤῥοφίης, …

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.