previous next
ἐπιτυγχάνω , fut.
A.“-τεύξομαι” Pl.R.431c: aor. 2 ἐπέτυ^χον: pf.“-τετύχηκα” Arist.Oec.1352b5:—prop. hit the mark, τοῦ σκοποῦ, opp. ἀποτυγχάνω, Id.EN1106b33 ; “οἱ πολλὰ βάλλοντες ἐπιτυγχάνουσι πολλάκις” Plu.2.438a : hence,
II. light or fall upon, meet with,
I. c. dat. pers., Ar.Nu.195,535, Th.3.75 ; “ἐ. γυναικὶ βιαζομένῃ” Pl.Lg.874c: also c.dat.rei, “ἐ. σορῷ” Hdt.1.68; “ναυσί” Th.8.34 ; “βιβλίῳ” Luc.Dem.Enc. 27 ; ἐ.[ταῖς θύραις] ἀνεῳγμέναις to find them open, Pl.Smp.223b.
2. c.gen.pers., “μετρίου ἀνδρός” Ar.Pl.245, cf. Plu.Art.12 : c.gen.rei, “ἐ. ὁλκάδος ἀναγομένης” Th.3.3 ; εὐώνων ἐ. a low market, Arist.Oec. l.c.
3. rarely c.acc., “τὰς ἁπλᾶς [ἐπιθυμίας] ἐν ὀλίγοις ἐπιτεύξῃ” Pl. R.431c ; “ἅττ᾽ ἂν ἐπιτύχῃς” Eub.123.5.
4. abs., Ar.Ra.570, Th.6.38 ; mostly ὁ ἐπιτυχών the first person one meets, any chance person, esp. in pl., Hdt.2.2, Antipho 2.1.1 : with neg., “οὐδὲ φαύλων ἀνδρῶν οὐδὲ τῶν ἐ.” Pl.Cra.390d ; “οὐ γὰρ οἶμαι τοῦ ἐ. εἶναι..” Id.Euthphr.4a ; οὐ περὶ τοῦ ἐ. on no common matter, Id.R.352d : without the Art., “ἐπιτυχόντος ἀνθρώπου λόγος” E.HF1248, cf. Phot. p. 140R. (=gloss on Eup. 25D.).
III. attain to, reach, gain one's end, c.gen.rei, X.Mem. 4.2.28, D.48.3 ; “εὐχωλᾶς” Inscr.Cypr.134 H.(iv B.C.); “πολιτείας” BGU 113.3 (ii A.D.), etc.; “τοῦ καλῶς [μειγνύναι]” Pl.Phlb.61d ; ἐ. τοῦ ἀγῶνος gain one's suit, D.48.30 ; profit by, benefit by, “φιλανθρωπίας” BGU 522.8 (ii A.D.): abs., “οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν” Ep.Jac.4.2.
2. c.part., succeed in doing, Hdt.8.101,103 (but ζητέων ἐπιτυγχάνειν find, light upon by searching, Hp. VM24): so c. inf., Luc.Nec.6 ; γαμβροῦ ὁ ἐπιτυχὼν εὗρεν υἱόν he who is lucky in his son-in-law, Democr.272.
3. c.dat.modi, to be lucky, successful in a thing, “μάχῃ” Aeschin.3.165 : abs., to be successful, Pl.Men.97c, Th.3.42, Arist.Rh.1354a9 ; ἂν ἐπιτύχῃ if she succeeds, Men.Epit.346 ; “τἆλλα ἐ.” X.HG4.5.19 : also impers., “αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἐπετύγχανε” Ant.Lib.41.6.
4. Pass., turn out well, “αἱ ἐπιτετευγμέναι πράξεις” successful, Plb.6.53.2, cf. Hipparch. ap. Stob.4.44.81, D.S.1.1, Plu.2.674a ; φάρμακον -τετευγμένον proved remedy, Heraclid.Tarent. ap. Gal.12.403.
IV. c.dat.pers., converse, talk with one, Pl.Lg.758c.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (34 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (34):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 165
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 1.1
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 570
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 245
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 3
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 30
    • Euripides, Heracles, 1248
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.68
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.101
    • New Testament, James, 4.2
    • Plato, Laws, 758c
    • Plato, Laws, 874c
    • Plato, Republic, 352d
    • Plato, Republic, 431c
    • Plato, Euthyphro, 4a
    • Plato, Cratylus, 390d
    • Plato, Philebus, 61d
    • Plato, Symposium, 223b
    • Plato, Meno, 97c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.42
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.75
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.34
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.38
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.5.19
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.2.28
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.53.2
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 195
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 535
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.3
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 24
    • Plutarch, Artaxerxes, 12
    • Lucian, Necyomantia, 6
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.1
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: