[Meaning] to attack. "He wrote that he was intending to make an attempt on Singara,[1] and send infantry sufficient for that purpose."[2]
*)epixeirh/sein: e)pibale/sqai. e)/grafen e)pixeirh/sein me/llein toi=s *sigga/rois kai\ e)pi\ tw=|de pe/mpein pezou\s a)poxrw=ntas.
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is future infinitive -- hard to render in idiomatic English -- of the verb
e)pixeire/w (
epsilon 2770,
epsilon 2771).
[1] Or else, if this is masculine rather than neuter, 'on the Singaroi'. Either way, see
sigma 366 (for present-day Sinjar, in Iraq).
[2] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 50. Its conjunction of
e)pixeirh/sein with
me/llein might look tautological, but see generally LSJ s.v.
me/llw I.c.
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