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προσέοικα , pf. with pres. sense, Att. inf. προσεικέναι prob. in E.Ba.1283, Ar.Ec.1161: Dor. plpf.
A.“ποτῴκειν” AP6.353 (Noss.), part. fem. ποτεοικεῖα prob. in Myia Ep.:—Pass. form of pf., “προσήϊξαι” E.Alc.1063:—to be like, resemble, “λέοντι” E.Ba. l.c., cf. Pl.Prt.331d; “γεράνῳ” Cratin.5; π. ταῖς ἑταίραις τὸν τρόπον in habits, Ar.l.c.; “σοὶ τὴν σιμότητα” Pl.Tht.143e; “π. κατὰ τὸ χρῶμα ἱέρακι” Arist.HA563b22; “ἑορτὴν εἰς τὰ πολλὰ καθαρμῷ -εοικυῖαν” Plu.Num.19.
II. seem fit, τὰ μὴ προσεικότα things not fit and seemly, S.Ph.903; “ἔξωρα . . κοὐκ ἐμοὶ προσεικότα” Id.El.618.
III. seem to do, c. inf., D.20.157.
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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