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ἐξικνέομαι , poet. aor.
A.“ἐξι^κόμην” Il.9.479, augm. ἐξίκοντο [ι_] Sapph. 1.13:—reach, arrive at a place, Hom. always in aor. and mostly c. acc. loci, “ἄλλων ἐξίκετο δῆμον” Il.24.481, etc.; “Φθιην δ᾽ ἐξι^κόμην ἐριβώλακα . . ἐς Πηλῆα ἄνακτα” 9.479; “δεῦρο” Simon. 171, cf. Pi.P.3.76, A.Pr.810: abs., Sapph. l.c.: with Preps., “ἐ. ἐς βυσσόν” Hdt.2.28; “ἐς ἥβην” S. Fr.583.6; “ἐπ᾽ ὄρος” A.Ag.303; “πρὸς πεδία” Id.Pr.792; “μέχρι γάμου καὶ γενεᾶς” Plu.2.149d.
II. come to as a suppliant, c. acc. pers., Od. 13.206, 20.223, Pi.P.11.35; “πρός τινα” Ant.Lib.38.2.
2. c. acc. rei, arrive at, reach an object, “σοφίας ἄωτον ἄκρον” Pi.I.7(6).19; “ἔργῳ οὐδὲ τἀναγκαῖα ἐ.” complete, accomplish, Th.1.70; τεθνηκόσιν γὰρ ἔλεγεν, οἷς οὐδὲ τρὶς λέγοντες ἐξικνούμεθα (by attract. for οὕς) Ar.Ra.1176, cf. Plu.2.347e: c. gen., E.El.612; “ἀλλήλων” X.HG7.5.17; also “πρός τι” Plb.1.3.10, etc.
3. abs., reach to a distance, of an arrow, “ὅσον τόξευμα ἐξικνέεται” Hdt.4.139; of sight, “ἐπὶ πολλὰ στάδια ἐ.” X.Mem. 1.4.17, cf. 2.3.19, E.Ba.1060; of mental operations, ὅσον δυνατός εἰμι <ἐπὶ> μακρότατον ἐξικέσθαι ἀκοῇ so far as I can get by inquiry, Hdt. 1.171; “ἐπ᾽ ὅσον μακρότατον ἱστορεῦντα ἦν ἐξικέσθαι” Id.2.34, cf. 4.16, 192; “ἐ. φρονήσει ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα” Pl.Hp.Ma.281d; “περαιτέρω τῆς χρείας ἐ. τῇ θεωρίᾳ” Plu.Sol.3.
b. suffice, of persons, “πρὸς τὸν προκείμενον ἄεθλον” Hdt.4.10; “ἐπί τι” Plu.Pomp.39; of things, “ἂν ἐξικνῆται τὰ ἡμέτερα χρήματα” Pl.Prt.311d: prov., “ἂν μὴ λεοντῆ γ᾽ ἐξίκητ᾽, ἀλωπεκῆν πρόσαψον” Com.Adesp.49D.
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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