ἐπεῖδον,
aorist 2, infinitive ἐπιδεῖν, with no present in use, ἐφοράω being used instead, look upon, behold, see, of evils, κακὰ πόλλ᾽ ἐπιδόντα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.61 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, ἐπιδόμενοι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 646 (Lyric poetry); ἐπιδέσθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1414 (_anapaest meter_); ἐπιδώμεθα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 289 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 especially of the gods, look upon human affairs, Ζεὺς ἐπίδοι προφρόνως στόλον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1 (_anapaest meter_), compare 145 (Lyric poetry), 1030 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νιν Ζεὺς ἐπίδοι κοταίνων [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 485 (Lyric poetry); Κύριε, ἔπιδε ἐπὶ τὰς ἀπειλὰς αὐτῶν NT.Act.4.29. ] NT]
__3 remain seeing, i.e. live to see, τὰ τέκνα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 6.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; experience, χαλεπά [[ [prev. author] “An.” 3.1.13 ] Refs]: with participle added, μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ᾽ ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 220 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ag.” 1539 (Lyric poetry); ἐπιδεῖν ἐρήμην τὴν πόλιν γενομένην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.96; τὴν πατρίδα ἐπιδεῖν δουλεύουσαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.205 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτὸς λωβηθεὶς καὶ τοὺς αὑτοῦ ἐπιδὼν παῖδας [λωβηθέντας] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]