A.standing over each in turn (“ἐφιστάμενος ἑκάστῳ” EM364.35), i.e. one after another, successively, νείκεον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον ἐ. Od.12.392; νώμησεν δ᾽ ἄρα πᾶσιν ἐ. 13.54; standing by, A.R.1.293; ἐ. οὐτάζοντες standing up to each other, Id.2.84.—The words of Od.16.453, δόρπον ἐ. ὡπλίζοντο, seem to have given rise to the other expl. of the Sch., ἐπισταμένως, ἐμπείρως (as if from ἐπίσταμαι).
ἐπιστα^δόν , Adv., (ἐφίστημι, ἐπιστῆναι)
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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