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ἐπεῖπον , aor. 2, inf. ἐπειπεῖν, pf.
A.“ἐπείρηκα” Plu.2.1054f: pres. ἐπιλέγω (q. v.):—say besides or afterwards, Hdt.1.123, Th.1.67, Aeschin. 2.157, etc.
2. ψόγον ἐ. τινί say it of one, A.Supp.972 (anap.), cf. Luc.Hist.Conscr.26; “σκωπτικόν τι εἴς τινα” Id.Dem.Enc.33.
3. quote as apposite, “τὰ ἐξ Ἰλιάδος ἐκεῖνα” Ael.VH4.18; “ἐ. τὸ κοινὸν ἀρχὴ δέ τοι ἥμισυ παντός” Luc.Somn.3; cf. ἐπιλέγω.
4. utter, pronounce a spell, “ἐ. ἐπῳδήν” Id.Philops.35.
5. make a speech at, “τάφῳ” Polem.Cyn.2.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 157
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 972
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.123
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.67
    • Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, 3
    • Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, 35
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 26
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 4.18
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