ἐφάλλομαι,
future - αλοῦμαι [[ LXX.1Ki.10.6: _Epic dialect_ ] LXX]aorist 2 ἐπᾶλτο, participle ἐπάλμενος, ἐπιάλμενος (see. below): regular aorist 2 infinitive -αλέσθαι [[ “IG” 4.951.27 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—spring upon, so as to attack, with dative, Ἀστεροπαίῳ ἐπᾶλτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.140, compare 13.643; Τρώεσσιν ἐπάλμενος 11.489, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπάλμενος ὀξέϊ δουρί[[ [prev. work] 421, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.220: without hostile sense, with _genitive_, ἵππων ἐπιάλμενος] Refs 8th c.BC+] having leaped upon the chariot, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.15; κύσσε.. μιν.. ἐπιάλμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.320 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of fame, ἐς Αἰθίοπας ἐπᾶλτο [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.50: rare in Prose, ἐπὶ τὸν οὐδὸν ἐ. (a Homeric reminiscence) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 535b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τὰν χῆρα [[ “IG” [same place]; ἐπί τινας NT.Act.19.16; ἵπποις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.139b; θαλάττης 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.10 ] NT+1st c.AD+]; ζῴῳ, in hostile sense, [[ 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 33.3 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; εἰς τοὐπίσω ἐ., of an exercise, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.145: _metaphorically_, of the spirit of prophecy, LXX [same place] ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]