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ἦκα , Adv.:
I. of Place or Motion, slightly, a little, ἦκ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερά a little to the left, Il.23.336; “ἦ. παρακλίνας κεφαλήν” Od.20.301: hence, generally, softly, gently, “ἦ. ἐλάσαι” 18.94, cf. 92; “ἀπώσατο ἦ. γέροντα” Il.24.508; “ἦ. μάλα ψύξασα” 20.440; “ἦ. κιόντας” Od.17.254; “ἦ. βιησάμενος” Nic.Al.226.
II. of Sound, softly, low, “ἦ. πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον” Il.3.155; ἦ. μύρεσθαι, μάλ᾽ ὁμαδῆσαι, A.R.3.463,565.
III. of Sight, softly, smoothly, ἦ. στίλβοντας ἐλαίῳ with oil soft-shining, Il.18.596; ἦκ᾽ ἐπιμειδήσας soft-smiling, Hes.Th.547; ἦ. μέλαν slightly black, Opp.C.3.39.
IV. of Time, by little and little, AP5.278 (Paul. Sil.), Opp.H.2.67. (Perh. connected with Lat. sēg-nis (for sēg-nis): but Hsch. has γάκα (i.e. ϝᾶκα）: ἡδέως; cf. ἥσσων, ἥκιστος, ἤκιστος, ἠκαῖον, ἤκαλος, ἠκαλέον.)
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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