ἐπ - έρχομαι , fut. inf.
ἐπελεύσεσθαι, aor. ἐπῆλθον, ἐπήλυθον, perf. ἐπελήλυθα: come or go to or
upon, come on; of the ‘arrival’
of times and seasons, Od. 10.175,
Il. 8.488; the
‘approach’ of sleep or sickness, Od. 4.793, Od.
11.200; and often in hostile sense,
‘attack,’ esp. the part., Il. 15.406, Il.
4.334; mostly w. dat., but w. acc. in the sense
‘visit,’ ‘haunt,’
‘traverse,’ ἄγκεα,
Il. 18.321;
γαῖαν,
Od. 4.268;
ἀγρούς,
Od. 16.27;
τμήδην, ‘struck and grazed,’ Il. 7.262.