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ἐπιτρέχω , fut.
A.“-δρα^μοῦμαι” X.Cyn.9.6, D.17.19 : aor. 2 “-έδρα^μον” Il. 4.524, al. (rarely aor. I “-έθρεξα” 13.409) : pf. “-δεδράμηκα” X.Oec.15.6 ; poet. “-δέδρομα” Od., etc. (v. infr. 11.2):—Pass., pf. “-δεδράμημαι” X.Oec.15.1 : —run upon or at, mostly for the purpose of attack, abs., “ὁ δ᾽ ἐπέδραμεν” Il.4.524, cf. 18.527 ; of dogs, “οἱ μὲν κεκλήγοντες ἐπέδραμον” Od.14.30 ; make an assault upon, “τινί” Th.4.32, X.Cyn.9.6, “ἐπί τινα” Id.HG5.4.51.
b. approach, εἰς ἃς (sc. μοίρας) “ἐπιτρέχει ἡ Σελήνη, τούτοις συνάπτει” Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).228.
2. run after, be eager or greedy, “οὔτι ἐπιδραμὼν πάντα τὰ διδόμενα ἐδέκετο” Hdt.3.135 ; “συγχωρεῖν ἐπιδραμών” in haste, Pl.Lg.799c ; “οὐκ ἂν ἡγεῖσθε αὐτὸν κἂν ἐπιδραμεῖν ὥστε γενέσθαι” D.27.56 : c. dat., to be greedy for, App.Pun.94.
II. run over a space, τόσσον ἐπεδραμέτην, of horses, Il.23.433, cf. 418,447 ; run over or graze the surface, “ἀσπὶς ἐπιθρέξαντος ἄϋσεν ἔγχεος” 13.409 : c. dat., “ἀσταχύεσσιν” Call.Aet.3.1.46.
2. to be spread over, “λευκὴ δ᾽ ἐπιδέδρομεν αἴγλη” Od.6.45 ; “κακὴ δ᾽ ἐπιδέδρομεν ἀχλύς” 20.357 : c. dat., “τῷ..ἐπιδέδρομεν ὀδμή” Hermipp.82.3 (hex.); “ἐπιδέδρομε νυκτὶ φέγγος” A.R.2.670; “οἱ ἔρευθος ἐπιτρέχει” Arat.834, cf. Opp.C.3.94; “ἐξανθήματα ἐ. τοῖς σώμασιν” Plu.2.671a ; ὄρεσι..ἀφ᾽ ἡλίου μορφαὶ ἐ. ib.934f ; “σημείων τῷ νεκρῷ μοχθηρῶν ἐπιδραμ.” Id.TG13, etc. : c. acc., οἶδμα ὅταν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ when the billow runs over the darkness of the deep, S. Ant.588(lyr.); τὴν χώραν, of lava, Arist. Mir.840a5; “ψυχὴν ἐπιδέδρομε λήθη” A.R.1.645 ; Π̔ώμην ἐπέδραμε λόγος c. acc. et inf., Plu.Aem. 25.
3. of a musician, run over, play upon, “ἐ. καλάμους χείλεσι” Longus 1.24 ; “τὴν σύριγγα τῇ γλώττῃ” Alciphr.3.12 ; “τῷ πλήκτρῳ τὰς χορδάς” Ath.4.139e.
4. overrun, as an army does a country, “ἐ. πεδίον πᾶν” Hdt.1.161 ; “τὰς κώμας πάσας” Id.8.23 ; τὴν χώρην πᾶσαν ib. 32 ; “τὰ ἔξω” Th.4.104.
5. run over, treat lightly or summarily of, X.Oec.25.1 (Pass.) ; τῷ λόγῳ ib.6 ; “εὐπόρως ἐ. περί τινος” Isoc.Ep.9.6 ; “μικρὰ περὶ αὐτῶν” D.17.19 ; “τὰς ἀπορίας ἐ.” Arist.Pol.1286a7 ; “Ηροδότου.. ἡ λέξις..ῥᾳδίως ἐπιτρέχουσα τοῖς πράγμασιν” Plu.2.854e ; ἐ. διὰ βραχυτάτων ib.119e ; “τὸ ἐπιτρέχον σχῆμα” Hermog.Id.1.11.
6. of a country, spread, extend, “ἐπὶ..” D.P.809 ; μέσην ἐ. νῆσον ib.1092.
7. “τῷ τῆς κώμης -οντι” inspèctor, PFay.107.7(ii A.D.) : pl., “-οντες” POxy. 2121.22 (iii A.D.).
III. run close after, “ἅρματα..ἵπποις ὠκυπόδεσσιν ἐπέδραμον” Il.23.504 ; ἐ. τὰ ἴχνη, of hounds, X.Cyn.3.6 : c. dat., follow, Arat.316 ; ἐ. τοῖς θήλεσιν, of the male, Plu.2.965e.
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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