ἕπεται (hepetai)

ἕπεται is an Ancient Greek form of ἕπομαι, meaning “to follow, accompany”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 210 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.42.2: τό τε γὰρ ξυμφέρον ἐν ᾧ ἄν τις ἐλάχιστα ἁμαρτάνῃ μάλιστα ἕπεται, καὶ τὸ μέλλον τοῦ πολέμου ᾧ φοβοῦντες ὑμᾶς Κερκυραῖοι κελεύουσιν ἀδικεῖν ἐν ἀφανεῖ ἔτι κεῖται, καὶ οὐκ ἄξιον …

Plato, Phaedo 108: … λὰς ἔχειν· ἀπὸ τῶν θυσιῶν τε καὶ νομίμων τῶν ἐνθάδε τεκμαιρόμενος λέγω. ἡ μὲν οὖν κοσμία τε καὶ φρόνιμος ψυχὴ ἕπεταί τε καὶ οὐκ ἀγνοεῖ τὰ παρόντα· ἡ δ’ ἐπιθυμητικῶς τοῦ σώματος ἔχουσα, ὅπερ ἐν τῷ ἔμπροσθεν εἶπον, περὶ ἐκεῖνο π …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.16.146: … ακαλῶν τὴν σοφίαν. καὶ ἔστι δἰ αὑτὴν αἱρετή. πᾶν τε αὖ τὸ καλὸν καὶ σεμνὸν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ δἰ υἱοῦ γιγνώσκεται. Ἕπεται τούτῳ ὁ περὶ μοιχείας λόγος. μοιχεία δ’ ἐστίν, ἐάν τις καταλιπὼν τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν καὶ ἀληθῆ γνῶσιν καὶ τὴν …

All forms of ἕπομαι (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.