A.come to or upon, οὐδέ τις ἄλλη νοῦσος ἐπὶ στυγερὴ πέλεται . . “βροτοῖσι” Od.15.408, cf. 13.60: elsewh. only in Ep. aor.2 part. ἐπιπλόμενος rolling on, approaching, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ ὄγδοόν μοι ἐπιπλόμενον ἔτος ἦλθεν when the eighth revolving year had come, 7.261; “ἐπιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν” Hes.Sc.87, Th.493 (v. ἐνιαυτός）; ἐπιπλ. νυκτί, “ἐπιπλ. ἠοῦς” A.R.2.1231, 4.670, etc.; of persons, Id.3.25,127; in hostile sense, attacking, assaulting, Id.1.465; so of a storm, νέφος . . “ἐπιπλ. ἄφατον” S.OT1314 (lyr.). (Cf. περιτέλλομαι, ἐπιτέλλω (B).)
ἐπιπέλομαι ,
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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