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ῥέπει (rhepei)

ῥέπει is an Ancient Greek form of ῥέπω, meaning “incline, tip (as a scale)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 21.4: … στεύοντι αἰχμαὶ καὶ χοροὶ καὶ Μοῦσα καὶ ἀγλαΐα. Μουσικωτάτους γὰρ ἅμα καὶ πολεμικωτάτους ἀποφαίνουσιν αὐτούς· ῥέπει γὰρ ἄντα τῶ σιδάρω τὸ καλῶς κιθαρίσδεν, ὡς ὁ Λακωνικὸς ποιητὴς εἴρηκε. καὶ γὰρ ἐν ταῖς μάχαις προεθύετο ταῖς …

Hippocrates, De articulis 59: … τι προκύπτειν ἐθέλει ἐς τοὔμπροσθεν· ὅλον δὲ τὸ σκέλος ἔχει τὴν ἰθυωρίην τὴν κατὰ φύσιν, καὶ οὔτε τῇ, οὔτε τῇ ῤέπει. ὀδυνῶνται δὲ αὐτίκα οὗτοι μάλιστα, καὶ οὖρον ἴσχεται τὸ πρῶτον τούτοισι μᾶλλόν τι, ἢ τοῖσιν ἄλλοισιν ἐξαρθρή …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 2.2·3: … ηρίης, ἢ φλεβὸς ἀνάγοιτο. μέλαν μὲν γὰρ καὶ παχὺ καὶ Ῥηϊδίως πηγνύμενον, ἢν ἀπὸ φλεβὸς, καὶ ἧσσον ἐς κίνδυνον Ῥέπει, καὶ ἐπίσχεται θᾶσσον. ἢν δὲ ἀπʼ ἀρτηρίης, ξανθὸν καὶ λεπτὸν, καὶ οὐ μάλα πήγνυται, καὶ ὁ κίνδυνος ὠκύτερος, …

All forms of ῥέπω (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.