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ἐπιβαίνω (“-βαίνει”; aor. “-έβᾶν, -έβᾶ; -έβᾶσε”.)
1.
a. c. acc. set foot upon “ἀλλ᾽ ἁ Κοιογενὴς ὁπότ̓ — ἐπέβα νιν” (= “Δᾶλον”). (v. l. “ἐπιβαίνειν”) fr. 33d. 4. met., touch upon “πολλῶν ἐπέβαν καιρὸν οὐ ψεύδει βαλών” (“gleichzeitig ist “πολλῶν” auch Objekt zu “βαλών”” Radt, Mnem., 1966, 153) N. 1.18 [“ἐπέβα δὲ” (coni. Wil.: “ἕπεται δὲ” codd.) N. 10.37]
b. come over (sc. as a cloud, so as to obscure) c. acc. “ἀλλ᾽ αἶνον ἐπέβα κόρος” O. 2.95 “ἐπὶ μὰν βαίνει τι καὶ λάθας ἀτέκμαρτα νέφος” O. 7.45
c. c. dat., embark upon, attain to “ἀνορέαις ὑπερτάταις ἐπέβα παῖς Ἀριστοφάνεος” N. 3.20
2. aor. 1 in causal sense, made to go upon c. acc. & gen. “νῦν δ᾽ αὖτις ἀρχαίας ἐπέβασε Πότμος συγγενὴς εὐαμερίας” (put him on the path of, Farnell) I. 1.39
Lexicon to Pindar. William J. Slater. Berlin. De Gruyter. 1969.

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