ἔφοδον (ephodon)

ἔφοδον is an Ancient Greek form of ἔφοδος, meaning “approach, attack”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 276 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.93.7: ταῖς γὰρ ναυσὶ μάλιστα προσέκειτο, ἰδών, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, τῆς βασιλέως στρατιᾶς τὴν κατὰ θάλασσαν ἔφοδον εὐπορωτέραν τῆς κατὰ γῆν οὖσαν· τόν τε Πειραιᾶ ὠφελιμώτερον ἐνόμιζε τῆς ἄνω πόλεως, καὶ πολλάκις τοῖς Ἀθηναίο …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.10.2: … νταῦθα ὡς ἐν βραχυτάτῳ ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο τοῦ καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγων εἶναι δοκεῖν καὶ ἐκ τῆς πορείας πεπονῆσθαι τήν τε ἔφοδόν σφων δεδιέναι, κἀκ τούτου καὶ ἐς αὐτὸ τὸ μετέωρον αὐτοὺς ὑπαγαγέσθαι.

All forms of ἔφοδος (declension 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.