ἐπιπολ-άζω,
future -άσω[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.64 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἐπιπεπόλακα [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.365 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: [ἐπιπολή]:—to be at the top, come to the surface, float on the surface, ὕλη ἐ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 16.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἐγχέλεις οὐκ ἐ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 592a10, compare 547b22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ ἀτμὶς ἐ. [[ [prev. author] “Mete.” 341b11 ] Refs]; τὸ ἐπιπολάζον, opposed to τὸ ὑφιστάμενον, [[ [prev. author] “Cael.” 312a6: with _dative_, ὕδατι ἐ. [prev. work] 311a28 ] Refs]; [τὸ ἔλαιον] ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ἐ. [[ [prev. author] “Mete.” 383b25 ] Refs]; of birds, hover over, [[ 4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 76 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of food, remain crude in the stomach, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.54, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Anthologia Graeca” 0.94b13, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.433, 15.63. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II. metaphorically, have the upper hand, prevail, [[[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus] 282; Φίλιππος ἐπιπολάζει 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.64, 8.107; ἐ. ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς πολιτεύμασιν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.13.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2. to be prevalent, fashionable, current, τοῖς τηλικούτοις.. ὕβρις ἐ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.2; ἐκ τῆς ἐπιπολαζούσης τὰ νῦν λεσχηνείας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 369d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ μάλιστα ἐπιπολάζουσαι [δόξαι] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095a30; ἐπιπολάζοντος τοῦ γελοίου [prev. work] 1128a12. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]