ἠπίστατο (epistato)

ἠπίστατο is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίσταμαι, meaning “know, understand, know how to”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 119 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.60.1: ὧν ἐνθυμούμενος ὁ δῆμος ὁ τῶν Ἀθηναίων, καὶ μιμνῃσκόμενος ὅσα ἀκοῇ περὶ αὐτῶν ἠπίστατο, χαλεπὸς ἦν τότε καὶ ὑπόπτης ἐς τοὺς περὶ τῶν μυστικῶν τὴν αἰτίαν λαβόντας, καὶ πάντα αὐτοῖς ἐδόκει ἐπὶ ξυνωμοσίᾳ ὀλιγαρχικῇ καὶ τυραννικῇ πεπρᾶχθαι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 37.49.3: καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν ὑπάτων Ἀφράνιος μέν (ὀρχεῖσθαι γὰρ βέλτιον ἤ τι διαπράσσειν ἠπίστατὀ πρὸς οὐδὲν αὐτῷ συνήρατο, Μέτελλος δὲ ὀργῇ, ὅτι τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ, καίτοι παῖδας ἐξ αὐτῆς ἔχων, ἀπεπέπεμπτο, καὶ πάνυ πρὸς πάντα

All forms of ἐπίσταμαι (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.