ἱκνέομαι: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br />to [[come]] to a [[place]], c. acc. loci, or foll. by a prep., ἵκετο [[νῆας]] or ἐπὶ [[νῆας]] Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[come]] to, ἵκετο [[χρόα]], of a [[spear]], Il.; [[τέλος]] [[ἵκεο]] μύθων Il.; ἠῶ [[ἱκέσθαι]], i. e. to [[live]] [[till]] [[morning]], Od.; λέκτροιο θεσμὸν ἱκ., i. e. to wed, Od.; [[ὅ τι]] χεῖρας ἵκοιτο, [[whatever]] came to [[hand]], Od.; ἱκ. ἐς λόγους τινός to [[speak]] with one, Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[suffering]], [[sorrow]], etc., to [[come]] [[upon]], [[πένθος]] ἱκ. τινά Il.; [[ἄχος]], [[χόλος]] τινὰ ἱκ. θυμόν or κραδίην Hom.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[approach]] as [[suppliant]], Hom.; τὰ σὰ [[γοῦνα]] ἱκόμεθ' Od.:—[[hence]], like [[ἱκετεύω]], to [[supplicate]], [[beseech]], τὰς θεὰς ἱκνοῦμαι Soph.; καί σε πρὸς [[θεῶν]] ἱκνοῦμαι Soph.:—c. inf., πάντες σ' ἱκνοῦνται θάψαι νεκρούς Eur.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> impers. like προσήκει, it becomes, befits, φαμὲν [[ἡμέας]] ἱκνέεσθαι ἡγεμονεύειν we say that it befits us to [[take]] the [[lead]], Hdt.; τοὺς [[μάλιστα]] ἱκνέεται (sc. κεκάρθαἰ whom it [[most]] concerns, Hdt.; so, ἐς τὸν ἱκνέεται he to whom it belongs, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[part]]., τὸ ἱκνεύμενον that [[which]] is [[fitting]], [[proper]], Hdt.; ὁ ἱκν. [[χρόνος]] the fit, [[proper]] [[time]], Hdt.; τὸ ἱκν. [[ἀνάλωμα]] the [[proportionate]] [[expense]], Thuc.:—[[hence]] adv. [[ἱκνευμένως]], [[fittingly]], [[aright]], Hdt. [[part]].