Strong G5348φθάνω
to precede/arrive
- Transliteration
- phthanō
- Pronunciation
- fthan'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to be beforehand that is anticipate or precede; by extension to have arrived at: - (already) attain come prevent.
Detailed definition
φθάνω
[in LXX for נָגַע hi., מְטָא, etc.;]
1. to come before another, anticipate (cl.): with accusative of person(s), 1Th.4:15.
2. In late writers and MGr. (see Kennedy, Sources, 156; Lft., Notes, 35), to come, arrive: Rom.9:31; before εἰς, Php.3:16; ἄχρι, 2Co.10:14; ἐπί (cf. Da TH Dan.4:21, and see Dalman, Words, 107), Mat.12:28, Luk.11:20, 1Th.2:16 (cf. προ-φθάνω).†
(AS)
[in LXX for נָגַע hi., מְטָא, etc.;]
1. to come before another, anticipate (cl.): with accusative of person(s), 1Th.4:15.
2. In late writers and MGr. (see Kennedy, Sources, 156; Lft., Notes, 35), to come, arrive: Rom.9:31; before εἰς, Php.3:16; ἄχρι, 2Co.10:14; ἐπί (cf. Da TH Dan.4:21, and see Dalman, Words, 107), Mat.12:28, Luk.11:20, 1Th.2:16 (cf. προ-φθάνω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5348 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- come4
- attain2
- hath1
- prevent1
- shall1
First verses
- Matthew 12:28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
- Luke 11:20But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
- Romans 9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
- 2 Corinthians 10:14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
- Philippians 3:16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
φθάνω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506)], imperfect ἔφθανον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.30, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.272 (from Bianor))]: future φθήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.444, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 375c, etc.)]; but φθάσω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.13 (assuming variant), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.38)]: aorist ἔφθᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 752 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.19, etc.; _imperative_ φθάσον 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 6.11.7)]; optative 3rd.pers. singular φθάσειε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.120, _plural_ φθάσειαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.14)] (this tense prevails in later Gk., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.66.1, etc.))]; Doric dialect ἔφθασσα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.115: but the only _Epic dialect_)]aorist is ἔφθην,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (not found in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus or 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)], but the more usual form in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus and 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus, less frequently in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; plural ἔφθημεν, -ητε, -ησαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1468, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.7, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.5)], Epic dialect plural 3 φθάν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.51;)]subjunctive φθῶ, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular φθήῃ, φθῇσιν, [Refs (16.861, 23.805)]; Epic dialect 1st pers. plural φθέωμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.383)]; 3rd.pers. plural φθέωσι [Refs (24.437)]; optative φθαίην, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular φθαίησι (παρα-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.346)]; infinitive φθῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.115, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4)]; participle φθάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71)]; Epic dialect participle middle φθάμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.119, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 554:)]perfect ἔφθᾰκα[LXX+4th c.BC+ (Philipp. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.39, LXX.2Ch.28.9, “IG” 12 9).906.26 (Chalcis, 3rd c.AD))]; πέφθακα [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Pseudo-Callisthenes Historicus 2.10 (see. l))]: pluperfect ἐφθάκει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Galba” 17, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 6)]:—passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a18)]: imperfect ἐφθάνετο [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.278 (from Bianor))]; ἐφθάνοντο [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.2.4 (variant{ἐφονεύοντο}))]: aorist ἐφθάσθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.25, “epigram Gr.” 315 (from Smyrna), “IPE” 2.197 (Panticapaeum, 2nd c.AD), 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.12.4. 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.560)]. [φθᾰνω always in Attic dialect (so also in [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.272 (from Bianor), “APl.” 4.382, 384))]; φθᾱνω in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506, 21.262 (where 4th-3rd c.BC: Zenodotus Grammaticus read φθανέει for φθάνει))]]:—come or do first or before others:
I with accusative person, to be beforehand with, overtake, outstrip, in running or otherwise, φθάνει δέ τε καὶ τὸν ἄγοντα [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.262; φθῆ σε τελος θανάτοιο 11.451, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 554, 570, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 120, “IT” 669, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.42, etc.; οὐ μὴ φθάσωμεν τοὺς κοιμηθέντας NT.1Thes.4.15)]; so ἔφθησαν τὸν χειμῶνα they anticipated the storm, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.188; φθάσας τὸν λογισμόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.38)]:—passive, to be overtaken, ὑπό τινος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a18, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.278 (from Bianor))]; ἐφθάσθην (see. above).
II absolutely, come or act first, opposed to ὑστερέω or ὑστερίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 975, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.18, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.121)]; τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁρπαγή the prey of the first comer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 752 (troch.), compare “fragment” 23 (Lyric poetry); πρὶν ἐλθεῖν αὐτοὺς φθάσαι βουλόμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.36; μὴ φθάσῃ ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐσπλεύσας [prev. author] 8, 100; φθάσαι πρὶν ἀδικηθῆναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1302b23, compare “Rh.” 1373a23)]; in later writers, τὰ φθάσαντα the things before mentioned, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.34, 4th c.BC: Arg. Demosthenes Orator 46)]; participle φθάνων, φθάσας previous, τῶν φθασάντων δυεῖν βιβλίων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.1)]; ἐν τοῖς φθάνουσιν ἔργοις Dex.Hist.[Refs 1st c.AD+ (“fragment” 26 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; τοῖς φθάνουσι κατορθώμασι [prev. author] “fragment” 6 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; οἱ φθάσαντες πόνοι 6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus 5.16; τὸ φθάνον)]previous time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 14.6)]; τὸ φθάσαν, τὰ φθάσαντα, the past, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus 3.2, +others, 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 32; ὁ φθάσας χρόνος 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus Prot. p.127 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]
II.2 with Preps., come or arrive first, ἕως τῶν οὐρανῶν [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ch.28.9; ἔφθασεν ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς NT.Matt.12.28, NT.Luke.11.20, cf. NT.1Thes.2.16: φ. εἰς)].., simply, arriveat, attain to, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Rom.9.31, NT.Phil.3.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.338a; φθάσομεν εἰς Πηλούσι[ον] “PPar.” 18.14 (2nd c.AD))]: absolutely, of Time, arrive, καιρὸς τῆς τομῆς ἔφθακε (variant{ἔφθασεν}) [LXX (LXX.Cant.2.12)]; ἔφθασεν ὁ μὴν ὁ ἕβδομος[LXX (LXX.2Esd.3.1.)]
II.2.b extend, μέχρι γῆς [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.27; εἰς βορρᾶν “PFlor.” 50.87 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.2.c reach, αἰθέρα [Refs (“APl.” 4.384.)]
II.2.d Grammars, to be applied or applicable, ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς διαθέσεις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 211.22, compare 217.23, +others)]
III the action in which one is beforehand is expressed by the participle agreeing with the subject, [Ἄτη] πολλὸν ὑπεκπροθέει, φθάνει δέ τε πᾶσαν ἐπ᾽ αἶαν βλάπτουσ᾽ ἀνθρώπους and is beforehand in doing men mischief, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506)]; ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα μιν φθῆ Τηλέμαχος κατόπισθε βαλών Telemachus was beforehand with him in striking, i.e. struck first, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.91, compare 16.383, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.368; ἔφθασέν με προαπελθὼν Χάρμος “PCair.Zen.” 16.3 (3rd c.BC))]; ἔφθησαν ἀπικόμενοι arrived first, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.136, compare 6.115)]; so φ. εὐεργετῶν to be the first to show a kindness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.14; ὅπως φθάσειαν βοηθήσαντες [prev. author] “HG” 7.2.14; ἔφθασαν προκαταλαβόντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.112; φθάνουσιν αὐτοὺς προκαταφυγοῦσαι [prev. author] 2.91; ἢν φθάσωσιν πρότερον διαφθείραντες τὸ στράτευμα [prev. author] 7.25; φ. γόνασι προσπεσὼν πατρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 986, etc:)]participle passive is also used, ἦ κε πολὺ φθαίη πόλις ἁλοῦσα, i.e. it would be taken first, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.815)]; εἴ κε φθήῃ τυπείς shall be wounded first, [Refs (16.861)]; φθαίητε γὰρ ἂν.. ἐξανδραποδισθέντες ἣ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108; μὴ φθάσωσι προεπιβουλευόμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83; ἔφθη κατακωλυθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.17)]; φθάνειν δεῖ πεφραγμένους τοὶς πόρους they must first be blocked up, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 2.4.25: these clauses, being comparable in sense, are followed by a _genitive_, φθὰν δὲ μέγ᾽ ἱππήων.. κοσμηθέντες)] were drawn up before the drivers, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.51)]; more frequently by πρὶν.. or ἢ.., ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος, πρὶν οὐτάσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (16.322, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.4; φθήσονται τούτοισι πόδες καὶ γοῦνα καμόντα ἢ ὑμῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.444; ἔφθης πεζὸς ἰὼν ἢ ἐγὼ σὺν νηΐ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.58)]; ἔφθησαν ἀναβάντες πρὶν ἢ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.70)]; ἔφθησαν ἐκπεσόντες πρότερον ἢ.. [Refs ([prev. author] 6.91.)]
III.b in later Gr., with participle to express previous action or happening, φθάνω ὑμῖν πρότερον γεγραφηκώς I have already written to you, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1666.3 (3rd c.AD), compare 237 vi30 (2nd c.AD))], etc.; ἔφθασα εἰρηκώς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 29; ὡς ἔφθην εἰπών [prev. author] “Par.” 3; compare 111.2b.)]
III.2 in the same sense, participle φθάς or φθάσας, Epic dialect φθάμενος, is used like an adverb with a principal Verb, ὅς μ᾽ ἔβαλε φθάμενος, for ὅς μ᾽ ἔφθη βαλών, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.119, compare 13.387, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.449)]; οὐκ ἄλλος φθὰς ἐμεῦ κατήγορος ἔσται no other shall be an accuser before me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71)]; ἀνέῳξάς με φθάσας you opened the door before me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1102; φθάσας προσπεσοῦμαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.9, compare 2.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.3, etc.)]; even with a participle, φθάσας.. ἁρπάσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.65)]; rarely participle present, φθάνοντες δῃοῦμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.18.)]
III.2.b in signification [Refs (111.1b, φθάσαντες ἐπληρώσαμεν αὐτούς we had)]already paid them, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1103.6 (4th c.AD))]; but ὡσεὶ καὶ ὁμογενῆ φθάσας εἶπον as if I had said (not had already said) ὁ., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.502.)]
III.3 rarely with infinitive, ὁ φθάσας θαρσῆσαι he that first gains confidence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; σπεύδειν ὅπως.. φθαίης ἔτ᾽ εἰς ἐκκλησίαν ἐλθεῖν (variant{ἐλθών}) hurry to be in time to get to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 935 (Lyric poetry), compare “Nu.” 1384 (see. infr. IV. 1))]; μόλις φθάνει θρόνοισιν ἐμπεσοῦσα μὴ χαμαὶ πεσεῖν hardly manages by falling first on the seat not to fall on the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1169)]; more frequently in later writers, of actions which one manages to do, does before or has done first or already, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1189, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.59, 61, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.111, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.2,93, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 13.2, “Harm.” 2; ἐὰν φθάσω πρὸ τῆς τρύγης ἀνελθεῖν “PSI” 8.971.10 (3rd-4th c.AD))]; ἐὰν ὁ ἰατρὸς αὐτὸ φθάσῃ κενῶσαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.499)]; φθάνοντος ἤδη πυρέττειν ἐκ τεττάρων ἡμερῶν τοῦ νοσοῦντος having already begun, [Refs ([prev. work]498)]; μὴ φθάνων προσηκόντως τρέφεσθαι if he is not first suitably nourished, [Refs ([prev. author] 18(2).36, compare 84,103)]; συμβαίνει φθάνειν ἀποθνῄσκειν τοὺς νεωτέρους the young die first, [Refs ([prev. work]222)]; εἰ φθάσαιμεν παλαιοὺς πίθους ἔχειν μεγάλους if we already have.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Geoponica” 6.3.11, compare 10.22.2, +others, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 90.1; ἔφθακεν οὖν ταῦτα ἐψηφίσθαι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ “IG” 12(9).906.26 (Chalcis, 3rd c.AD).)]
IV with negatives,
IV.1 with οὐ and participle (infinitive is see reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1384), followed by καί or καὶ εὐθύς, of two actions following close on each other, οὐ φθάνειν χρὴ συσκιάζοντας γένυν καὶ.. ὁρμᾶν)] you must no sooner get your beard than you march, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1219)]; οὐ φθάνει ἐξαγόμενος καὶ εὐθὺς ὅμοιός ἐστι τοῖς ἀκαθάρτοις no sooner is he brought out than he becomes unclean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1384)]; οὐκ ἔφθημεν εἰς Τροιζῆν᾽ ἐλθόντες καὶ τοιαύταις νόσοις ἐλήφθημεν ἐξ ὧν.. no sooner had we come to Troezen than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.22, compare 5.53, 8.98, 9.53)]; οὐκ ἔφθη μοι συμβᾶσα ἡ ἀτυχία καὶ εὐθὺς ἐπεχείρησαν διαφορῆσαι τἄνδοθεν scarcely or no sooner had misfortune befallen me when.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.65, compare 43.69, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.86.)]
IV.2 οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτε, with participle present, express a strong exhortation or urgent command, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτε τὴν ταχίστην ὀπίσω ἀπαλλασσόμενοι you could not be too quick in departing, i.e. make haste and be off, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.162)]; οὐ φθάνοιτ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἄν θνῄσκοντες make haste and die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 936, compare 941, Alcaeus 662, “Heracl.” 721, “Tr.” 456 (troch.), “IT” 245; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτον τοῦτο πράττοντε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 485; ἀποτρέχων οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις [prev. work] 1133)]; εἰς ἀγορὰν ἰὼν ταχέως οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 874, compare “Ec.” 118; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις λέγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.11)]; these phrases are not to be treated as questions, compare οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιμι (i.e. λέγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214e, compare “Phd.” 100c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.40, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Fug.” 26, “Symp.” 2, “Anach.” 14)]: with participle aorist, once in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista, “Vit.Auct.” 26.)]
IV.2.b in [Refs (1, 2, or 3 _person_, to express immediate futurity, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις ἀκούων you)]shall hear in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272d)]; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι τὸ πλῆθος τούτοις τοῖς θηρίοις δουλεῦον will soon (or inevitably) be enslaved to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.143)]; also to express what is logically inevitable, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιεν αὐτοὺς προσκυνοῦντες they will soon be (or cannot logically help) worshipping them, Aristeas 137; τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις καὶ Ἐμπεδοκλεῖ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἐγκαλῶν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Fug.” 2; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι κἀμὲ μάντιν λέγων [prev. author] “Hes.” 8; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι τις ἁπάσας ἀναιρῶν τὰς τοιαύτας προστασίας [prev. author] “Apol.” 11)]: with participle aorist, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tox.” 2.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506)], imperfect ἔφθανον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.30, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.272 (from Bianor))]: future φθήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.444, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 375c, etc.)]; but φθάσω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.13 (assuming variant), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.38)]: aorist ἔφθᾰσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 752 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.19, etc.; _imperative_ φθάσον 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 6.11.7)]; optative 3rd.pers. singular φθάσειε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.120, _plural_ φθάσειαν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.14)] (this tense prevails in later Gk., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.66.1, etc.))]; Doric dialect ἔφθασσα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.115: but the only _Epic dialect_)]aorist is ἔφθην,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (not found in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus or 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)], but the more usual form in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus and 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus, less frequently in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; plural ἔφθημεν, -ητε, -ησαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1468, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.7, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.5)], Epic dialect plural 3 φθάν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.51;)]subjunctive φθῶ, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular φθήῃ, φθῇσιν, [Refs (16.861, 23.805)]; Epic dialect 1st pers. plural φθέωμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.383)]; 3rd.pers. plural φθέωσι [Refs (24.437)]; optative φθαίην, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular φθαίησι (παρα-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.346)]; infinitive φθῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.115, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.4)]; participle φθάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71)]; Epic dialect participle middle φθάμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.119, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 554:)]perfect ἔφθᾰκα[LXX+4th c.BC+ (Philipp. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.39, LXX.2Ch.28.9, “IG” 12 9).906.26 (Chalcis, 3rd c.AD))]; πέφθακα [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Pseudo-Callisthenes Historicus 2.10 (see. l))]: pluperfect ἐφθάκει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Galba” 17, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 6)]:—passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a18)]: imperfect ἐφθάνετο [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.278 (from Bianor))]; ἐφθάνοντο [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.2.4 (variant{ἐφονεύοντο}))]: aorist ἐφθάσθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.25, “epigram Gr.” 315 (from Smyrna), “IPE” 2.197 (Panticapaeum, 2nd c.AD), 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.12.4. 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 4.560)]. [φθᾰνω always in Attic dialect (so also in [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.272 (from Bianor), “APl.” 4.382, 384))]; φθᾱνω in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506, 21.262 (where 4th-3rd c.BC: Zenodotus Grammaticus read φθανέει for φθάνει))]]:—come or do first or before others:
I with accusative person, to be beforehand with, overtake, outstrip, in running or otherwise, φθάνει δέ τε καὶ τὸν ἄγοντα [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.262; φθῆ σε τελος θανάτοιο 11.451, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 554, 570, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 120, “IT” 669, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.42, etc.; οὐ μὴ φθάσωμεν τοὺς κοιμηθέντας NT.1Thes.4.15)]; so ἔφθησαν τὸν χειμῶνα they anticipated the storm, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.188; φθάσας τὸν λογισμόν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.38)]:—passive, to be overtaken, ὑπό τινος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a18, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.278 (from Bianor))]; ἐφθάσθην (see. above).
II absolutely, come or act first, opposed to ὑστερέω or ὑστερίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 975, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.18, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.121)]; τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁρπαγή the prey of the first comer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 752 (troch.), compare “fragment” 23 (Lyric poetry); πρὶν ἐλθεῖν αὐτοὺς φθάσαι βουλόμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.36; μὴ φθάσῃ ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐσπλεύσας [prev. author] 8, 100; φθάσαι πρὶν ἀδικηθῆναι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1302b23, compare “Rh.” 1373a23)]; in later writers, τὰ φθάσαντα the things before mentioned, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.34, 4th c.BC: Arg. Demosthenes Orator 46)]; participle φθάνων, φθάσας previous, τῶν φθασάντων δυεῖν βιβλίων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.1)]; ἐν τοῖς φθάνουσιν ἔργοις Dex.Hist.[Refs 1st c.AD+ (“fragment” 26 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; τοῖς φθάνουσι κατορθώμασι [prev. author] “fragment” 6 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; οἱ φθάσαντες πόνοι 6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus 5.16; τὸ φθάνον)]previous time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 14.6)]; τὸ φθάσαν, τὰ φθάσαντα, the past, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus 3.2, +others, 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 32; ὁ φθάσας χρόνος 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus Prot. p.127 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]
II.2 with Preps., come or arrive first, ἕως τῶν οὐρανῶν [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ch.28.9; ἔφθασεν ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς NT.Matt.12.28, NT.Luke.11.20, cf. NT.1Thes.2.16: φ. εἰς)].., simply, arriveat, attain to, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Rom.9.31, NT.Phil.3.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.338a; φθάσομεν εἰς Πηλούσι[ον] “PPar.” 18.14 (2nd c.AD))]: absolutely, of Time, arrive, καιρὸς τῆς τομῆς ἔφθακε (variant{ἔφθασεν}) [LXX (LXX.Cant.2.12)]; ἔφθασεν ὁ μὴν ὁ ἕβδομος[LXX (LXX.2Esd.3.1.)]
II.2.b extend, μέχρι γῆς [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.27; εἰς βορρᾶν “PFlor.” 50.87 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.2.c reach, αἰθέρα [Refs (“APl.” 4.384.)]
II.2.d Grammars, to be applied or applicable, ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς διαθέσεις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 211.22, compare 217.23, +others)]
III the action in which one is beforehand is expressed by the participle agreeing with the subject, [Ἄτη] πολλὸν ὑπεκπροθέει, φθάνει δέ τε πᾶσαν ἐπ᾽ αἶαν βλάπτουσ᾽ ἀνθρώπους and is beforehand in doing men mischief, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.506)]; ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα μιν φθῆ Τηλέμαχος κατόπισθε βαλών Telemachus was beforehand with him in striking, i.e. struck first, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.91, compare 16.383, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.368; ἔφθασέν με προαπελθὼν Χάρμος “PCair.Zen.” 16.3 (3rd c.BC))]; ἔφθησαν ἀπικόμενοι arrived first, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.136, compare 6.115)]; so φ. εὐεργετῶν to be the first to show a kindness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.14; ὅπως φθάσειαν βοηθήσαντες [prev. author] “HG” 7.2.14; ἔφθασαν προκαταλαβόντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.112; φθάνουσιν αὐτοὺς προκαταφυγοῦσαι [prev. author] 2.91; ἢν φθάσωσιν πρότερον διαφθείραντες τὸ στράτευμα [prev. author] 7.25; φ. γόνασι προσπεσὼν πατρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 986, etc:)]participle passive is also used, ἦ κε πολὺ φθαίη πόλις ἁλοῦσα, i.e. it would be taken first, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.815)]; εἴ κε φθήῃ τυπείς shall be wounded first, [Refs (16.861)]; φθαίητε γὰρ ἂν.. ἐξανδραποδισθέντες ἣ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108; μὴ φθάσωσι προεπιβουλευόμενοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83; ἔφθη κατακωλυθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.17)]; φθάνειν δεῖ πεφραγμένους τοὶς πόρους they must first be blocked up, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 2.4.25: these clauses, being comparable in sense, are followed by a _genitive_, φθὰν δὲ μέγ᾽ ἱππήων.. κοσμηθέντες)] were drawn up before the drivers, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.51)]; more frequently by πρὶν.. or ἢ.., ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος, πρὶν οὐτάσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (16.322, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.4; φθήσονται τούτοισι πόδες καὶ γοῦνα καμόντα ἢ ὑμῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.444; ἔφθης πεζὸς ἰὼν ἢ ἐγὼ σὺν νηΐ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.58)]; ἔφθησαν ἀναβάντες πρὶν ἢ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.70)]; ἔφθησαν ἐκπεσόντες πρότερον ἢ.. [Refs ([prev. author] 6.91.)]
III.b in later Gr., with participle to express previous action or happening, φθάνω ὑμῖν πρότερον γεγραφηκώς I have already written to you, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1666.3 (3rd c.AD), compare 237 vi30 (2nd c.AD))], etc.; ἔφθασα εἰρηκώς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 29; ὡς ἔφθην εἰπών [prev. author] “Par.” 3; compare 111.2b.)]
III.2 in the same sense, participle φθάς or φθάσας, Epic dialect φθάμενος, is used like an adverb with a principal Verb, ὅς μ᾽ ἔβαλε φθάμενος, for ὅς μ᾽ ἔφθη βαλών, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.119, compare 13.387, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.449)]; οὐκ ἄλλος φθὰς ἐμεῦ κατήγορος ἔσται no other shall be an accuser before me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71)]; ἀνέῳξάς με φθάσας you opened the door before me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1102; φθάσας προσπεσοῦμαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.9, compare 2.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.3, etc.)]; even with a participle, φθάσας.. ἁρπάσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.65)]; rarely participle present, φθάνοντες δῃοῦμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.18.)]
III.2.b in signification [Refs (111.1b, φθάσαντες ἐπληρώσαμεν αὐτούς we had)]already paid them, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1103.6 (4th c.AD))]; but ὡσεὶ καὶ ὁμογενῆ φθάσας εἶπον as if I had said (not had already said) ὁ., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.502.)]
III.3 rarely with infinitive, ὁ φθάσας θαρσῆσαι he that first gains confidence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; σπεύδειν ὅπως.. φθαίης ἔτ᾽ εἰς ἐκκλησίαν ἐλθεῖν (variant{ἐλθών}) hurry to be in time to get to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 935 (Lyric poetry), compare “Nu.” 1384 (see. infr. IV. 1))]; μόλις φθάνει θρόνοισιν ἐμπεσοῦσα μὴ χαμαὶ πεσεῖν hardly manages by falling first on the seat not to fall on the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1169)]; more frequently in later writers, of actions which one manages to do, does before or has done first or already, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1189, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.59, 61, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.111, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.2,93, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 13.2, “Harm.” 2; ἐὰν φθάσω πρὸ τῆς τρύγης ἀνελθεῖν “PSI” 8.971.10 (3rd-4th c.AD))]; ἐὰν ὁ ἰατρὸς αὐτὸ φθάσῃ κενῶσαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.499)]; φθάνοντος ἤδη πυρέττειν ἐκ τεττάρων ἡμερῶν τοῦ νοσοῦντος having already begun, [Refs ([prev. work]498)]; μὴ φθάνων προσηκόντως τρέφεσθαι if he is not first suitably nourished, [Refs ([prev. author] 18(2).36, compare 84,103)]; συμβαίνει φθάνειν ἀποθνῄσκειν τοὺς νεωτέρους the young die first, [Refs ([prev. work]222)]; εἰ φθάσαιμεν παλαιοὺς πίθους ἔχειν μεγάλους if we already have.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Geoponica” 6.3.11, compare 10.22.2, +others, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 90.1; ἔφθακεν οὖν ταῦτα ἐψηφίσθαι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ “IG” 12(9).906.26 (Chalcis, 3rd c.AD).)]
IV with negatives,
IV.1 with οὐ and participle (infinitive is see reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1384), followed by καί or καὶ εὐθύς, of two actions following close on each other, οὐ φθάνειν χρὴ συσκιάζοντας γένυν καὶ.. ὁρμᾶν)] you must no sooner get your beard than you march, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1219)]; οὐ φθάνει ἐξαγόμενος καὶ εὐθὺς ὅμοιός ἐστι τοῖς ἀκαθάρτοις no sooner is he brought out than he becomes unclean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1384)]; οὐκ ἔφθημεν εἰς Τροιζῆν᾽ ἐλθόντες καὶ τοιαύταις νόσοις ἐλήφθημεν ἐξ ὧν.. no sooner had we come to Troezen than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.22, compare 5.53, 8.98, 9.53)]; οὐκ ἔφθη μοι συμβᾶσα ἡ ἀτυχία καὶ εὐθὺς ἐπεχείρησαν διαφορῆσαι τἄνδοθεν scarcely or no sooner had misfortune befallen me when.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.65, compare 43.69, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.86.)]
IV.2 οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτε, with participle present, express a strong exhortation or urgent command, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτε τὴν ταχίστην ὀπίσω ἀπαλλασσόμενοι you could not be too quick in departing, i.e. make haste and be off, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.162)]; οὐ φθάνοιτ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἄν θνῄσκοντες make haste and die, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 936, compare 941, Alcaeus 662, “Heracl.” 721, “Tr.” 456 (troch.), “IT” 245; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιτον τοῦτο πράττοντε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 485; ἀποτρέχων οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις [prev. work] 1133)]; εἰς ἀγορὰν ἰὼν ταχέως οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 874, compare “Ec.” 118; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις λέγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.11)]; these phrases are not to be treated as questions, compare οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιμι (i.e. λέγων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214e, compare “Phd.” 100c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.40, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Fug.” 26, “Symp.” 2, “Anach.” 14)]: with participle aorist, once in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista, “Vit.Auct.” 26.)]
IV.2.b in [Refs (1, 2, or 3 _person_, to express immediate futurity, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις ἀκούων you)]shall hear in a moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272d)]; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι τὸ πλῆθος τούτοις τοῖς θηρίοις δουλεῦον will soon (or inevitably) be enslaved to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.143)]; also to express what is logically inevitable, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοιεν αὐτοὺς προσκυνοῦντες they will soon be (or cannot logically help) worshipping them, Aristeas 137; τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις καὶ Ἐμπεδοκλεῖ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἐγκαλῶν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Fug.” 2; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι κἀμὲ μάντιν λέγων [prev. author] “Hes.” 8; οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι τις ἁπάσας ἀναιρῶν τὰς τοιαύτας προστασίας [prev. author] “Apol.” 11)]: with participle aorist, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tox.” 2.)]