The corpus record

ἐγκατα-σκήπτω

egkataskepto

fall upon, hurl down among, upon

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

ἐγκατα-σκήπτω · enkata-skēptō — LSJ

fall upon

fall upon, of lightning, εἴς τινα D.C. 49.15; of epidemics, πολλαχόσε ἐ. Th. 2.47, cf. Gal. 10.880: metaph., Ph. 2.471, Ael. Fr. 348.

II hurl down among, upon

trans., hurl down among or upon, of lightning, ἐγκατάσκηψον βέλος S. Tr. 1087; κακῶν ἃ Πέρσαις ἐγκατέσκηψεν θεός A. Pers. 514.

In the wild

ἐγκατέσκηψεν · enkateskēpsen Aeschylus, Persians 513–514
ἐγκατάσκηψον · enkataskēpson Sophocles, Trachiniae 1085–1087
ἐγκατασκῆψαι · enkataskēpsai Thucydides, History 2.47.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1266)
ἐγκατασκήψας · enkataskēpsas Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.3.14 (DIORISIS sentence 1832)

Where it came from

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