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στείχω , Il.2.287, Alc.19, A. Th.467, etc.; also στίχω , Hdt.3.14, Hsch.; subj.
A.“στίχῃ” Hdt.1.9 (v.l. στείχῃ): Ep. impf. “στεῖχον” Il.9.86, etc.: aor. 1 ἔστειξα (only in compd. “περίστειξας” Od.4.277): aor. 2 “ἔστι^χον” Il.16.258, Call.Del.153, Theoc.25.223, etc., but never in Trag.:—Poet. Verb, used by Ep., Lyr., Trag. (also Aeol., Sapph. Supp.16, Alc. 19, and in Aeol. Prose, IG12(2).6.6 (Mytil., iv B.C.), Inscr.Perg.5.25 (Temnos, iii B.C.); used by Cic.Att.6.5.2 in a mockheroic phrase, ἐξ ἄστεος ἑπταλόφου στείχων): walk, march, go or come, the direction being given by a Prep. or by the context,
a. of motion to or towards, “πρὸς οὐρανόν” Od.11.17; “ποτὶ πύργους” A.Th. 297 (lyr.); “πρὸς δόμους” Id.Ag.1657 (troch.); “πρὸς φίλων τάφον” E.Or. 97; “στεῖχ᾽ εἰς ἀγορὰν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑρμᾶς” Mnesim.4.2 (anap.); “ἐπὶ τὴν εὐνήν” Hdt.1.9; ς. ἀνά, κατὰ ὁδόν, Od.23.136, 17.204; “ἀνὰ ἄστυ” 7.72; “δι᾽ ἄστεως” A.Supp.496; “εἰς Ἄργος” Id.Ch.675; “ἐς Ἅιδην κατ᾽ ἄκρας” E. Hipp.1366 (anap.); “θύραζε” Od.9.418; “ἔσω” A.Ch.554; “δεῦρο” S.OC 1151: c. acc. loci, go to, approach, γύας, πόλιν, δόμους, A.Pr.708, Supp. 955, S.OC643: abs., Id.Tr.179, E.Rh.992 (anap.).
b. of motion from, ἀπ᾽ Ἄργεος ς. Il.2.287; “ἀπ᾽ Ὀλύμπου” Hes.Th.690; “ἐκ δόμων” S.OT632; “οἴκοθεν” Pi.N.9.20: abs., go, depart, “στείχωμεν” A.Pr.81, cf. Ch.98, S.Ant.98, Fr.257.
2. march in line or order (whence στίχος, στίχες, στοῖχος）, ἐς πόλεμον ς. march to war, Il.2.833; “οἱ δ᾽ ἅμα Πατρόκλῳ ἔστιχον” 16.258; ς. ἐπὶ τοὺς ξείνους against them, Hdt. 9.11; ἐν εὐθείαις ὁδοῖς ς. Pi.N.1.25.
3. c.acc. cogn., “ὁδούς” A.Ag. 81 (anap.); “τὰν νεάταν ὁδόν” S.Ant.808 (lyr.); “ἀνὴρ ὁπλίτης κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις στείχει πρὸς πύργον” A.Th.467.
4. metaph., “ἀοιδὰ ς. ἀπ᾽ Αἰγίνας” Pi.N.5.3; “ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ ῥιπή” A.Pr.1090 (anap.); “ἴουλος ἄρτι διὰ παρηΐδων” Id.Th.534; “πρὸς τοὺς φίλους στείχοντα . . κακά” S.Ant.10; τὴν ἄτην . . στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ib.186. (Cf. Skt. stighnoti 'step up, mount', Goth. steigan 'climb'.)
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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