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|auten=(ϝεικω), imp. [[εἶκε]], [[part]]. εἴκων, aor. εῖξα, iter. [[εἴξασκε]]: [[yield]], [[give]] [[way]], [[withdraw]] ([[from]] [[anything]], τινός, [[before]] [[one]], τινί), be [[inferior]] (to [[one]], τινί, in [[some]] [[respect]], τὶ, [[sometimes]] τινί); [[εἰσορόων]] [[χρόα]] κᾶλόν, [[ὅπῃ]] ϝείξειε [[μάλιστα]], [[where]] it, i. e. the [[body]] of [[Hector]], would [[best]] ‘[[yield]]’ to a [[blow]], Il. 22.321 ; εἴ [[πέρ]] [[τίς]] σε βίῃ καὶ κάρτεϊ ϝείκων | οὔ σε τίει, ‘[[yielding]]’ to [[violent]] impulses, Od. 13.143 ; μηδ' εἴκετε χάρμης | Ἀργείοις, ‘[[fall]] [[not]] [[back]] [[from]] [[battle]] [[before]] the Greeks,’ Il. 4.509 ; [[ἀνδρῶν]] [[δυσμενέων]] ὅ τέ μοι ϝείξειε πόδεσσιν, [[whoever]] ‘[[was]] [[inferior]]’ to me in [[running]], Od. 14.221; aor. 1 trans., εἶξαι [[ἡνία]] ἵππῳ, ‘[[give]] him [[free]] [[rein]],’ Il. 23.337.