στείχω, Il. 2.287 , Alc. 19 , A. Th. 467 , etc.; alsoστίχω, 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
ἔστῐχον
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, IG 12(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, goorcome, the direction being given by a Prep. or by the context,
a. of motiontoortowards, πρὸς οὐρανόν