κατεπ-είγω,
press down, χαλεπὸν κατὰ γῆρας ἐπείγει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.623. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 press hard, οἱ χρῆσται κατήπειγον αὐτόν his creditors were pressing him hard, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 33.6, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.61 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατεπείγει ὕδωρ ῥέον the ebbing water (of the clepsydra) urges him on, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 172e; ἡ φιλοτιμία κατήπειγεν αὐτόν [prev. author] “Ep.” 338e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative et infinitive, οὐδὲν ἡμᾶς ἐστὶ τὸ κατεπεῖγον τὸ μὴ.. σκοπεῖν [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 781e; οὐδὲν ὑμᾶς κ. ἀκοῦσαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.18; τὸ -επεῖγον πράττειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.2; τὰ ἀναλώματα τὰ -επείγοντα “PFlor.” 161.5 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ κ. alone, the urgent symptom, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).426; οὔτε τι κωλύει οὔτε -επείγει 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 14; τὰ μάλιστα -επείγοντα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.132, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.66.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν ἐν ἐκείνῳ μὲν τῷ χρόνῳ πραχθέντων, ῥηθῆναι δὲ νῦν οὐ -επειγόντων not urgently requiring mention, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.192; τῆς ὥρας -επειγούσης 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.99.9; θόρυβος φόβος μετὰ φωνῆς -επείγων “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.98 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be pressed, [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator (?) “Oxy.” 1607.43, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.138 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; περί τινος “PCair.Zen.” 530 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II intransitive, hasten, make haste, ἕπου κατεπείγων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 293: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, Βοιωτοὶ οὐδέν τι κατήπειγον ξυνάψαι were in no haste, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδέν κω κατεπείγων αὐτὸς ἥκειν probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.126. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]