Related to: ἔπειμι,
(εἶμι
__B ibo) infinitive ἐπιέναι, serving in Attic dialect as future of ἐπέρχομαι: Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular imperfect ἐπήϊεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.741 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐπήϊσαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.233, ἐπῇσαν 19.445 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Attic dialect ἐπῇα, 3rd.pers. plural ἐπῇσαν: ἐπιείσομαι, -εισαμένη (which see) belong to a different word:
__B.I come upon (in future sense, though this is not so fixed in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus as in _Attic dialect_): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I.1 of persons, come upon, approach, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.42, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I.1.b mostly in hostile sense, come against, attack, with dative, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.482, etc.; τῷ λόφῳ ἐ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.129 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Prose also with Preps., ἐ. ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.86 (variant{πρός}), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος [[ [prev. author] 7.4: _absolutely_, Αἰνείαν ἐπιόντα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.477, compare 5.238; ἐπάγοντες ἐπῇσαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.445 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐπιόντες the invaders, assailants, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.11, etc.; ὡς ἐπιών ] Refs 5th c.BC+]by assault, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but ὁ ἐπιών in Trag., ={ὁ τυχών}, the first comer, τό γ᾽ αἴνιγμ᾽ οὐχὶ τοὐπιόντος ἦν ἀνδρὸς διειπεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 393, compare “OC” 752. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]