ἐπίληπτος

A. caught or detected in anything, ἐ. ᾑρέθη S. Ant. 406: c.part., ἐπίλαμπτος ἀφάσσουσα caught in the act of feeling, Hdt. 3.69.

2. . culpable, censurable, πάθος Ph. 2.348; βίος Id. 2.4, al., cf. Porph. Chr. 23; of errors in metre, Heph. 4.6.

3. . disabled, ἀνδράποδον Hyp. Ath. 15 (unless in signf. 11); of a hen-partridge, Arist. HA 613b18.

II. . suffering from epilepsy, Hp. Aph. 3.16:—D. 25.80 puns on the two senses, τοὺς ἐπιλήπτους φησὶν ἰᾶσθαι, αὐτὸς ὢν ἐ. πάσῃ πονηρίᾳ; so ἐ. ὑπὸ πάθους Plu. 2.798f.