A.sum) inf. ἐπεῖναι: Ep. impf. “ἔπεσαν” Od.2.344: fut. ἐπέσομαι, Ep. and Lyr. -έσσομαι, 4.756, Pi.O.13.99:—to be upon, c. dat. loci, “κάρη ὤμοισιν ἐπείη” Il.2.259; “σῆμα δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπῆν κύκλῳ” A. Th.591; in Prose mostly with Prep., “ἐπὶ τοῦ καταστρώματος ἐ.” Hdt. 8.118; “ἐπὶ [τῷ ποταμῷ] πύλαι ἔπεισι” Id.5.52, cf. 7.176; “ἐπὶ ταῖς οἰκίαις τύρσεις ἐπῆσαν” X.An.4.4.2: abs., “κώπη δ᾽ ἐλέφαντος ἐπῆεν” Od.21.7, cf. 2.344, Il.5.127, A.Ag.547, etc.
2. to be upon, be set upon, of names, “οὐκ ἔπεστι ἐπωνυμίη Περσέϊ” Hdt.6.53; so “ψεύδεσι σεμνὸν ἔπεστί τι” Pi.N.7.23; “τοῖσι λόγοις σῶφρον ἔ. ἄνθος” Ar.Nu.1025; to be attached, “μελέτη δ᾽ ἔπεστι παντί” Anacreont.58.3; “οὔτε τις τάξις οὔτε ἀνάγκη ἔπεστιν αὐτοῦ τῷ βίῳ” Pl.R.561d; esp. of rewards and penalties, ποινά, κέρδος ἐπέσται, A.Eu.543 (lyr.), Ar.Av.597; “ἔπεστι νέμεσις” S.El.1467; “ἔσχαται τιμωρίαι ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις ἔπεισιν” Is.3.47, cf. Pl.Lg.943d: abs., Ταραντίνων οὐκ ἐπῆν ἀριθμός no count was taken, no number was attached, Hdt.7.170, cf. 191; to be at hand, be present, “τίς τέρψις ἐπέσται;” S.Aj.1216 (lyr.); “αἰσχύνη” X.Cyr.6.2.33; “πιεῖν δὲ θάνατος οἶνον, ἢν ὕδωρ ἐπῇ” Cratin.273 (s.v.l.); τὰ ἐπόντα accidents or characteristics, opp. τὸ ὑποκείμενον, Plot.2.4.10.
II. of Time, to be hereafter, remain, “ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι πού τις ἐπέσσεται” Od.4.756; to be at hand, “οὐδέ τι δειλὸν γῆρας ἐπῆν” Hes.Op.114; ἐπεσσόμενοι ἄνθρωποι generations to come, Orac. ap. Hdt.6.77, Epigr. ap. Aeschin. 3.184; ἐπεσσόμενοι alone, Theoc.12.11.
III. to be set over, “τισί” Hdt.7.96, 8.71; “ἔπεστί σφι δεσπότης νόμος” Id.7.104; “τίς δὲ ποιμάνωρ ἔ.;” A.Pers.241 (troch.), cf. 555 (lyr.).
IV. to be added, be over and above, of numbers, “χιλιάδες ἔπεισι ἐπὶ ταύτῃσι ἑπτά” Hdt.7.184, cf. 185; ἐπόντων τεσσάρων plus four, Arr.Tact.10.8; τὰ ἐπεσόμενα τούτοις (sc. προβάτοις) Arch.Pap.1.64 (ii B.C.).
V. to be added as confirmation, “ἔξορκος ἐπέσσεται” Pi.O.13.99.