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αἰκ-ίζω , aor.
A.“ᾔκισα” Herod.2.46: pf. αἴκικα: ὕβρικα, Hsch.:—maltreat, “τινά” S.Aj. 403, Tr.839; “σῶμα” Tim.Pers.189; of a storm, mar, spoil, “πᾶσαναἰκίζων φόβην ὕλης” S.Ant.419:—Pass., to be tortured, rarely in pres. in A.Pr. 169, Pl.Ax.372a: pf. “ᾔκισμαι” D.S.18.47, Polyaen.8.6: more freq. in aor. 1, “πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστὸν αἰκισθέντα” S.Ant.206; “ἐδέθη καὶ ᾐκίσθη” Lys.6.27; “τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν σώματα αἰκισθέντες” And.1.138, cf. Isoc. 4.154; “εἰς τὸ σῶμα αἰκισθῆναι πληγαῖς” Arist.Pol.1311b24.
II. more freq. in Med. αἰκίζομαι , A.Pr.197, Isoc.4.123: impf. “ᾐκιζόμην” S.Aj. 300: fut. “αἰκίσομαι” AP12.80 (Mel.), Att. -ιοῦμαι （κατ-) E.Andr.829: aor. “ᾐκισάμην” S.Aj.111, OT1153, Isoc.5.103, X.An.3.4.5: pf. “ᾔκισμαι” E.Med.1130, plpf. “ᾔκιστο” Plu.Caes.29:—in same sense as Act., Il. cc.; damage, “τὰ χωρία” D.43.72: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, “αἰκίζεσθαί τινα τὰ ἔσχατα” X.An.3.1.18; “αἰκίσασθαί τινας πᾶσαν αἰκίαν” Plb. 24.9.13.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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