ἐπίληπτ-ος,
Ionic dialect ἐπίλαμπτος, ον, caught or detected in anything, ἐ. ᾑρέθη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 406: c.participle, ἐπίλαμπτος ἀφάσσουσα caught in the act of feeling, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.69. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2. culpable, censurable, πάθος [[1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.348; βίος [prev. author] 2.4, +others, cf. Porph. “Chr.” 23 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of errors in metre, [[ Heph. 4.6. ] Refs]
__3. disabled, ἀνδράποδον [[4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 15 (unless in signification 11)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a hen-partridge, [[ Arist. “HA” 613b18. ] Refs]
__II. suffering from epilepsy, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aph.” 3.16:— D. 25.80 puns on the two senses, τοὺς ἐπιλήπτους φησὶν ἰᾶσθαι, αὐτὸς ὢν ἐ. πάσῃ πονηρίᾳ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐ. ὑπὸ πάθους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.798f.