Fallen (πεπτωκοτα). Perfect active participle of πιπτω, already down. In  note πεσοντα (constative aorist active, like a flash of lightning) after εθεωρουν and in  note αναβαινοντα (present active and linear, coming up, picturing the process) after ειδον.

Of the pit of the abyss (του φρεατος της αβυσσου). Αβυσσος is an old adjective (alpha privative and βυθος, depth, without depth), but η αβυσσος (supply χωρα place), the bottomless place. It occurs in  for the common receptacle of the dead for Hades (Sheol), but in  a lower depth is sounded (Swete), for the abode of demons, and in this sense it occurs in ; ; ; ; ; ; . Φρεαρ is an old word for well or cistern (; ) and it occurs in  for the mouth of the abyss which is pictured as a cistern with a narrow orifice at the entrance and this fifth angel holds the key to it.