A.“ἱκνεῖτο” S.OC970: fut. “ἵξομαι” Il.6.502, Parm. 3.2, A.Supp.159 (lyr.); Dor. “ἱξοῦμαι” AP9.341 (Glauc.): aor. 2 “ἱκόμην” Il.8.149, etc.; inf. “ἴκεσθαι” Sapph.Supp.1.2 [ι^, exc. when lengthd. by the augm.]; for part. ἴκμενος v. sub voce: pf. “ἷγμαι” S.Tr.229, part. “ἱγμένος” Id.Ph.494: non-thematic aor. 2 “ἷκτο” Hes.Th.481, [Simon.] 179.4, Euph.2: (ἀφικνέομαι is used in early Prose, exc. in signf. 111; ἵκοντο is f.l. in Th.5.40, ἵκηται is a poet. reminiscence in Pl.Phdr.276d; but ἵκετο is found in Hdt.1.216, “ἵκηται” Hp.Loc.Hom. 47; also in later Prose, Luc.Salt.5, DDeor.6.4, Procop.Pers.1.4, 2.21):—come, “αἶψα δ᾽ ἵκοντο” Il.18.532; ὁπότε Κρήτηθεν ἵκοιτο when he came to us . . , 3.233; ὑπότροπον οἴκαδ᾽ ἱ. Od.22.35; “ἐς χῶρον” Il.4.446; “ἐπὶ νῆας” 6.69; “κατὰ λειμῶνα” Od.24.13; “πρὸς γούνατα” Hes.Th. 460; “ὑπὸ πτόλιν” Il.11.182; “εἰς ὁμόν” Parm.8.46; “πρὸς ὁμοῖον” Emp.62.6; “τυῖδ᾽ ἴκεσθαι” Sapph. l.c.: freq. in Hom., c. acc., arrive at, “ἵκετο νῆας” Il.8.149; “τέλος ἵκεο μύθων” 9.56; “οἶκον . . καὶ σὴν ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν” Od.23.258; later “ἱκέσθαι γαῖαν” Pi.P.4.118 codd.; “βένθος” Emp.35.3; “ἄλσος” A.Supp.556 (lyr.); “στέγας” S.OT534, etc.
2. reach, attain to, ποσὶν οὖδας ἱ. Od.8.376; οὐδ᾽ ἵκετο χρόα καλόν, of a spear, Il.11.352; “οὐδ᾽ ὀστέον ἵκετο” Od.19.451 (v. ὑπερίημι); so of things, ἠχή, καπνὸς αἰθέρ᾽ ἱ., Il.13.837, 18.207; “ἔμπης ἐς γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἵκετ᾽ ἀϋτμή” 14.174; “ἐς πόλιν ἵκετ᾽ ἀϋτή” Od.14.265; of Time, ἥβης μέτρον or ἥβην ἱ., Il.11.225, 24.728, etc.; “γήραος οὐδόν” Od.15.246; so “ἐπὶ γῆρας” 8.227; ἠῶ ἱ. live till morn, 17.497; also ὀλέθρου πείραθ᾽ ἱ. Il.6.143; “λέκτροιο παλαιοῦ θεσμὸν ἵκοντο” Od.23.296, cf. 354; θίλην ἐπὶ γένναν ἵ. Emp. 110.9; “ἐς ἄπειρον” Xenoph.28; “ἐς τὸ τυθῆναι” Hdt.1.216; “εἰς τὸ λήθης γῆρας” Pl.Phdr. l.c.:—in various phrases, ἱ. μετὰ κλέος come in quest of glory, Il.11.227; ἐς χεῖρας ἱ. come into one's power, 10.448; ὅ τι χεῖρας ἵκοιτο whatever came to hand, Od.12.331; ἱ. ἐς γενεάν τινος into his family, Pi.N.10.14; ἐς λόγους τοὺς σοὺς ἱ. to speak with thee, S.El.315; ἐνθάδ᾽ ἵξομαι shall come to this at last, Id.Aj. 1365; ἤν ποτε δασμὸς ἵκηται if ever a division come about, Il.1.166.
II. with a person as object, τινα ib.139, etc.; “ἔς τινα” Od. 6.176; but also, come to his house, 20.372; Πηλεΐωνάδ᾽ ἵ. to the hut of the son of P., Il.24.338; μετὰ Τρῶας ἱ. 3.264: rarely c. dat., ἐπειγομένοισι δ᾽ ἵκοντο came to them at need, 12.374; cf. “ἱκάνω” 11.
2. of suffering, desire, anger, etc., come upon, “Ἀχιλλῆος ποθὴ ἵξεται υἷας Ἀχαιῶν” Il.1.240; τί σε φρένας ἵκετο πένθος; ib.362; “ὅν τιν᾽ ἵκηται ἄλη καὶ πῆμα καὶ ἄλγος” Od.15.345; “ὁππότε μιν κάματός τε καὶ ἱδρὼς γούναθ᾽ ἵκοιτο” Il.13.711; ἅδος, σέβας ἵ. τινα θυμόν, 11.88, 18.178; “με ἵ. ἄχος κραδίην” 23.47.
3. approach as suppliant, “τὴν ἱκόμην φεύγων” 14.260, cf. 22.123; “τὰ σὰ γοῦνα ἱκόμεθ᾽” Od.9.267; “θεοὺς προστροπαῖς ἱκνουμένη” A.Pers.216 (troch.); “Ζῆνα . . ἱξόμεσθα σὺν κλάδοις” Id.Supp.159 (lyr.); [θεὸν] θυέεσσιν ἱκνεῖσθαι approach a god with offerings and prayer, Theoc.Ep.8.3.
b. Poet. in pres., supplicate, beseech, “τάσδε τὰς θεὰς καλῶν ἱκνοῦμαι” S.OC1011; “καί σε πρὸς τοῦ σοῦ τέκνου καὶ θεῶν ἱκνοῦμαι μή . . ” Id.Aj.588, cf. OC275, Ph.470; ταύτης ἱκνοῦμαί ς' E.Or.671: c. inf., “πάντες σ᾽ ἱκνοῦνται . . θάψαι νεκρούς” Id.Supp.130: freq. parenthetic, S.Ph.932, El.136 (lyr.), Ar.Ec.958, Tim.Pers.139.
III. pres. and impf., it becomes, befits, pertains to, c. acc. et inf., “φαμὲν ἡμέας ἱκνέεσθαι ἡγεμονεύειν” Hdt.9.26; τοὺς μάλιστα ἱκνέεται (sc. κεκάρθαι) Id.2.36; ἱκνέεται it is usual that . . , Hp.Art.63; later, not impers., “οὗ ἡ ἱερουργία ἱκνεῖτο” D.C.Fr.25.5; “ὅ[σα τᾶς δίκας ἱ] κνεῖται” SIG953.46 (Cnidos, ii B.C.).
b. αὐτὸς καὶ ὧν ἱκνεῖται, of a man and those to whom he belongs, i.e. his family, ib.46.25, al. (Halic.).
2. freq. in part., τὸ ἱκνεύμενον that which is fitting, proper, Hdt.6.84; ὁ ἱ., with or without χρόνος, the fit, proper time, Hp.Aër.7, Hdt.6.86.ά; ἐν ἱκνουμένᾳ ἁμέρᾳ Orac. ap. D.43.66; τὸ ἱ. ἀνάλωμα the quota of expense, Th.1.99; “κατὰ τοὺς ἱ. χρόνους” Arist.GA750b13 (also of the latter days, D.H. 1.66); “ἱ. καιροί” Thphr.CP1.13.3; “τὰ -ούμενα μεγέθη” Arist.GA772a8; “ἡ ἱ. ἐπιστήμη” Id.Pol.1288b16; τῆς ἱ. ἡλικίας τυχεῖν ib.1332b41; also ἱκνούμεναι ἀποδείξεις convincing proofs, Phld.Piet.79; οὐδὲν εἴρηται ἱ. S.E.M.1.205; λόγος τινὶ ἱκνούμενος favourable, SIG679.77 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.). Adv. ἱκνουμένως, Ion. -ευμένως, fittingly, aright, Hdt. 6.65, Hp.Mul.2.135, M.Ant.5.12.
