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ἥκω , Il.5.478: impf. ἧκον (v. infr.): fut. ἥξω (v. infr.); Dor.
A.“ἡξῶ” Theoc.4.47, Call.Fr.1.65 P. (in Dor. and Hom. more commonly ἵκω): all other tenses late; aor. 1 part. “ἥξας” Paus.2.11.5, Gal.6.56, 10.609: pf. “ἧκα” Philostr.VA3.24, Scymn.62, 1pl. “ἥκαμεν” UPZ72.9 (ii B.C.), CIG4762 (Egypt, i A.D.), Dor. ἥκαμες f.l. in Plu.2.225b, 2pl. “ἥκατε” PGrenf.2.36.18 (i B.C.), 3pl. “ἥκασι” LXX4 Ki.20.14, Ev.Marc.8.3; inf. “ἡκέναι” UPZ6.30 (ii B.C.): plpf. “ἥκεσαν” J.AJ19.1.14: —Med., pres. subj. “ἥκηται” Aret.SD2.1: fut. ἥξομαι v.l. in M.Ant. 2.4:—to have come, be present, prop. in a pf. sense, with impf. ἧκον as plpf., I had come, and fut. ἥξω as fut. pf., I shall have come, “μάλα τηλόθεν ἥκω” Il.5.478, cf. Od.13.325, Pi.O.4.12 (ἵκω codd. vett.): impf. “ἧκον” A.Pr.661, Th.1.91, al., Pl.R.327c, Hdt.8.50, etc.: fut. “ἥξω” A.Pr. 103, al., E.Andr.738, Ar.Pax265, Orac. ap. Th.2.54, etc.; ἧκε imper., S.Aj.1116, Ar.Pax275, X.Cyr.4.5.25; “ἡκέτω” E.Rh.337:—Constr. mostly with εἰς, Hdt.8.50, A.Ch.3, etc.; “παρά τινα” Hdt.7.157, Th.1.137; “πρός τινα” A.Ch.659; “πρὸς δαίμονα” S.Fr.770; esp. in worship, “ἥκω πρὸς τὴν κυρίαν Ἶσιν” OGI186.6 (Egypt, i B.C.), cf. Ev.Jo.6.37; “πρὸς πόλιν” S.OC734; ἐπί τινα to set upon, attack, Pl.R.336b, Aeschin. 2.178; but ἥ. ἐπὶ τὸ στράτευμα to have come to fetch the army, X. An.7.6.2; “οἱ ἐπὶ ταῦθ᾽ ἥκοντες” D.18.28; “ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ” E.IA886 (troch.); “περὶ σπονδῶν” X.An.2.3.4: c. acc., “ἥξεις ποταμόν” A.Pr.717, cf. 724, 730; “ἥ. δῆμον τὸν Λυρκείου” S.Fr.271.6, cf. E.Ba.1; “ἥκουσιν αὐτῷ ἄγγελοι” X.Cyr.5.3.26; ἐς ταὐτὸν ἥ. to have come to the same point, to agree, E.Hec.748, Hipp.273: with Adv. of motion, ἥ. ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο, S.Ph.377, D.19.58; “βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθενπερ ἥκει” S.OC1227: c. neut. Pron., “αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἥκω παρά σε” Pl.Prt.310e; ἐρωτώμενοι ὅ τι ἥκοιεν for what they had come, X.HG4.5.9: c. acc. cogn., “ὁδὸν μακρὰν ἥκειν” Id.Cyr.5.5.42: c.inf., μανθάνειν γὰρ ἥκομεν we are here to learn, S. OC12.
2. to have reached a point, ἐς τοσήνδ᾽ ὕβριν ib.1030; “εἰς τοῦτο ἀμαθίας” E.Andr.170; “εἰς τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίας” Pl.Ap.25e; “εἰς ὅσον ἡλικίας” Id.Chrm.157d, etc.; “πρὸς γάμων ἀκμάς” S.OT1492; ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκεις; ib.687, etc.; Geom., pass through a point, “διὰ τῶν πόλων” Autol.Sph.10, cf. Archim.Con.Sph.9.
b. διὰ μάχης, δι᾽ ὀργῆς ἥκειν, A.Supp.475, S.OC905; cf. “διά” A. IV.
c. with an Adv. folld. by gen., “οὕτω πόρρω σοφίας ἥκεις” Pl.Euthd.294e; εὖ ἥκειν τινός to be well off for a thing, have plenty of it, τοῦ βίου, χρημάτων, Hdt.1.30, 5.62; “ἑωυτῶν” Id.1.102; “θεῶν χρηστῶν” Id.8.111; πιθανότητος Demetr.Magn. ap.D.H.Din.1; οὐκ ὁμοίως ἥ. τινός not to be equally well off in respect of . . , Hdt.1.149; πῶς ἀγῶνος ἥκομεν; how have we sped in the contest? E.El.751; ὧδε γένους ἥ. τινί to be this degree of kin to him, Id.Heracl.213; “ὡς δυνάμεως ἥκεις” Paus.4.21.10; “ἐς μῆκος εὖ ἥκων” Ael.NA4.34: abs., εὖ ἥκειν to be flourishing, Hdt.1.30: rarely c. gen. only, σὺ δὲ δυνάμιος ἥκεις μεγάλης thou art in great power, Id.7.157 (nisi leg. μεγάλως).
3. to have come back, returned, D.20.73; from exile, And.2.13; αὐτίκα ἥξω I shall be back in a moment, X.An.2.1.9; ἧκέ νυν ταχύ come back soon, Ar.Pax275; “ἄψορρον ἥξεις” A.Pr. 1021; “ἄψορρον ἥξομεν πάλιν” S.El.53.
4. c. part., ἥκω φέρων I have come bringing (i.e. with), Id.OC579, cf. 357, Ar.Pax265, Eup.22 D., Pl.Grg.518d; “ἧκεν ἄγων” Id.Phd.117a; “ἕτερόν τι ἥκεις ἕχων” Id.Grg. 491c, etc.: c. fut. part., like ἔρχομαι, ἥκω φράσων, ἀγγελῶν, etc., I am going, I intend to say, E.Ph.706, 1075, etc.
5. to have come to be, “θεοῖς ἔχθιστος ἥκω” S.OT1519 (troch.), cf.Aj.636(lyr.), El.1201, etc.; take one's origin, “ἀπὸ πολιτειῶν τοιούτων ἥκετε, ἐν αἷς . . ” Th.4.126.
II. of things, in various uses: of meats, to have come to table, Alex.132; “ὡς τὰ περιφερόμενα ἧκε πρὸς ἡμᾶς” X.Cyr.2.2.3; of reports, “ἐμοὶ ἀγγελίη ἥκει παρὰ βασιλέος” Hdt.8.140.ά, cf. S.OC1177; of events, “πῆμα ἥκει τινί” A.Pr.103, cf. Ar.Ra.606, etc.; “ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ ἥκει βίον τελευτή” S. OC1472; ἵν᾽ ἥκειτὰ μαντ εύματα what they have come to, Id.OT953; ὡς αὐτὸν ἥξοι μοῖρα ib.713 codd.; ἥξει πόλεμος Orac. ap. Th.2.54; “ἐς αὐτὸν ἥξει τὸ δεινόν” Id.6.77; of Time, ἥκει ἦμαρ, νύξ, A.Ag.1301, E.IT42; “ἥκει ὑμῖν ὁ καιρός” Lys.12.79; “τὸ μέλλον ἥξει” A.Ag.1240.
2. concern, relate to, ποῖ λόγος ἥκει; to what do the words relate? E.Tr.154 (lyr.); “εἰς ἔμ᾽ ἥκει . . τὰ πράγματα” Ar.Pl.919; εἰς ἐμὲ τὸ ἐλλεῖπον ἥξει will fall upon me, X.Cyr.1.5.13: freq. in part., “τὰ εἰς τοὺς κινδύνους ἥκοντα” Antipho 5.81; τὰ εἰς πλοῦτον ἥ. Pl.Erx.392d; τὰ πρὸς ἔπαινον, εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν ἥ., Plb.12.15.9,28.17.2, etc.
3. depend upon, “ὅσα τῆς Φωκέων σωτηρίας ἐπὶ τὴν πρεσβείαν ἧκε” D.19.30; “τό γε ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἧκον μέρος” Ph.2.21; “ὅσα γ᾽ εἰς βούλησιν ἥκειν τὴν ἐμήν” Hld.4.7.
4. c. inf., ἧκέ μοι γένει . . πενθεῖν it has come to me by birth . . , my birth lays it on me . . , S.OC738, cf. Ichn.356; καλῶς αὐτοῖς κατθανεῖν ἧκον βίου it being well for them at their age to die, E.Alc.291.
5. c. part., ὃ καὶ νῦν ἥκει γινόμενον which commonly happens even now, Plb.24.9.11 codd. (v.l. γενόμενον). (Prob. from same root as ἵκω.)
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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