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ἔπειμι (A), (εἰμί
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.
3. to be in one's possession, “ἀνέρες οἷσιν ἔπεστι μέγα κράτος” h.Cer.150.
4. to be imminent, “ἐπόντος τοῦ φόβου τούτου” D.21.9; εἰ μηδεὶς ἐπῆν ἀγὼν μηδὲ κίνδυνος ibid.
5. ἔπι for ἔπεστι (v. “ἐπί” E. 11).
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.
2. belong in addition, “τὰν περὶ αὐτὸ χώραν ἐπείμειν Πριανέων” Schwyzer289.27 (ii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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