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ἔοικα,
as, ε, etc., perfect with present sense, to be like: rarely in other tenses, 3rd.pers. singular imperfect εἶκε it was opportune, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.520 (unless from εἴκω 111)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future εἴξω will be like, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1001 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; perfect 3rd.pers. dual ἔϊκτον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 1st pers. plural ἔοιγμεν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1239, “Ichn.” 95, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 99; ἐοίκαμεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 193d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural εἴξασι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 497, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 96, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 291a, “Sph.” 230a, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 22, 153, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 98.8; ἐοίκασι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 584d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive εἰκέναι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 167, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 185 (compare προσέοικα)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle εἰκώς (also ἐϊκώς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.254, see entry εἰκός); εἰοικυῖαι 18.418: _Ionic dialect_ (not _Epic dialect_) οἶκα, ας, ε, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.82, 5.20, 106 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], participle οἰκώς [[ [prev. author] 6.125 ] Refs]; but ἔοκια, ἐοικώς are found in other Ionic writers, as [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.41, 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 84, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 1, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 266, and codices of 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus vary] Refs 7th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular εἶκας (variant{οἶκας}) [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 80 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐῴκειν, εις, ει, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.411, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐῴκεσαν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἐοίκεσαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.102 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. dual ἐΐκτην [[ 1.104, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.662, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 390 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] codices: Attic dialect pluperfect ᾔκειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1298 (Dawes from Scholia)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, 3rd.pers. singular perfect ἤϊκται [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 658 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: pluperfect ἤϊκτο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.31, +others, ἔϊκτο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.107. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I to be like, look like, with dative, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.474, etc.; Μαχάονι πάντα ἔοικε 11.613; κεφαλήν τε καὶ ὄμματα καλὰ ἔοικας κείνῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.208 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so εἶδός τε μέγεθός τε, δέμας, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.58, 21.285, etc.; εἰς ὦπα ἔοικεν, ἄντα ἐῴκει, 3.158, 24.630, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μελαίνῃ κηρὶ ἔοικε is considered like, i.e. hated like, death, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.500: with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]participle, αἰεὶ γὰρ δίφρου ἐπιβησομένοισιν ἐΐκτην seemed always just about to set foot upon the chariot, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.379 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔοικε σημαίνοντι seems to indicate, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 437a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὐναντίον ἔοικεν σπεύδοντι seems to urge the opposite, [[ [prev. author] “Prt.” 361b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.10, 4.3.8, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 437b24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔοικεν τοῦτο ἀτόπῳ this is like an absurdity, seems absurd, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 62d; δαιμονίᾳ ἔοικεν εὐεργεσίᾳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.1: used by 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus in this sense only in ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle εἰκώς like, with dative, [[ “Ag.” 760 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 560 (cf. IV. 1). ] Refs]
__I.2 ἐοικέναι κατά τι to be analogous to, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.4.39. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II seem, with infinitive (where we make the Verb impersonal): with infinitive present, methinks, ἔοικα δέ τοι παραείδειν ὥς τε θεῷ I seem to sing (i. e. methinks I sing) to thee, as to a god, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.348 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χλιδᾶν ἔοικας methinks thou art delicate, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 971; ἔοικα θρηνεῖν μάτην [prev. author] “Ch.” 926, compare 730; ἔοικα.. οὐκ εἰδέναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 744; ἔοικα.. ἐποικτίρειν σε [prev. author] “Ph.” 317: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future infinitive, θέλξειν μ᾽ ἔοικας it seems likely that thou wilt.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 900; ἐρεῖν ἔοικας [prev. author] “Pr.” 984; ἔοικα θεσπιῳδήσειν [prev. author] “Ag.” 1161; κτενεῖν ἔοικας [prev. author] “Ch.” 922; τὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἔοικεν ὕπνος ἔξειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 821; ἔοικα πράξειν οὐδέν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 813, compare “Cyc.” 99: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist infinitive, πικροὺς ἔοιγμεν.. ἀγῶνας κηρῦξαι methinks we proclaimed, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1239 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with perfect infinitive, ἔοικεν ἐπωνομάσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 419c: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle, ἔοικε κεκλημένη seems to be called, [[[prev. passage]] Refs]; ἐοίκατε ἡδόμενοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.8; κατακεκομμένη ἔοικεν ἡ σύνθεσις καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητος 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 impersonal, ἔοικε it seems: ὡς ἔοικε as it seems, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 576, 740, “El.” 772, 1341, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 551, etc., used by 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] merely to modify a statement, probably, I believe, Phd.61c, [[ “R.” 332b, +others] Refs]; ἔοικεν in answers, so it seems, [[[prev. work] 334a, 346c, +others ] Refs]
__II.3 personal in the same sense, ὡς ἔοικας [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 516, “Tr.” 1241; ὡς εἴξασιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 497. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III beseem, befit, with dative person, τὸ μὲν ἀπιέναι.. οὐδενὶ καλῷ ἔοικε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.17 (unless οὐδενὶ κ. is _neuter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνδράσι ἔοικεν τὰ τῆς γεωργίας [[ “POxy.” 899.18 (200 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with dative et infinitive, τὰ μὲν οὔ τι καταθνητοῖσιν ἔοικεν ἄνδρεσσιν φορέειν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.440; compare 111.2 near the end ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III.2 most frequently impersonal, ἔοικε it is fitting, reasonable, mostly with negative and followed by infinitive, οὐκ ἔστ᾽ οὐδὲ ἔοικε τεὸν ἔπος ἀρνήσασθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.212; οὐ γὰρ ἔοικ᾽ ὀτρυνέμεν 4.286: frequently with _accusative_ et ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, [[ 12.212, +others] Refs]; in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.196 an ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive must be supplied, εὐνῇ ἔνι μαλακῇ καταλέγμενος, ὥς σε ἔοικεν (i.e. καταλέξασθαι); ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ ἔοικε (i.e. εἶναι) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.119 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—rare in Attic dialect, ἔοικεν νέῳ.. ὀργὴν ὑποφέρειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 879c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV participle ἐοικώς, εἰκώς, Ionic dialect οἰκώς, υῖα, ός,
__IV.1 seeming like, like, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.449, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—the longer form is found in Attic dialect Prose, φόβος οὐδενὶ ἐοικώς [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.71; εἰκώς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 760 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 560, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 376, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1321. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.2 fitting, seemly, μῦθοί γε ἐοικότες.., ὧδε ἐοικότα μυθήσασθαι, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.124, 125, compare 4.239; ἐοικότι κεῖται ὀλέθρῳ 1.46 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐϊκυῖαν ἄκοιτιν a suitable wife, 'a help meet for him', [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.399. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__IV.3 likely, probable, εἰκός ἐστι, ={ἔοικε}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 659, 1488, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially ὡς εἰκός, Ionic dialect ὡς οἰκός, ={ὡς ἔοικε}, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.45 (i.e. ἦν), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 498, etc.; οἷον εἰκός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 406c; καθάπερ εἰκός [prev. author] “Ti.” 24d; also ὡς τὸ εἰκός [prev. author] “Phd.” 67a, “R.” 407d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ εἰκότες λόγοι, μῦθοι, [[ [prev. author] “Ti.” 48d, 59c ] Refs]; ἀδύνατα εἰκότα plausible miracles, opposed to δυνατὰ ἀπίθανα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1460a27. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.4 καὶ τὰ ἐοικότα and the like, αἶγες, αἴλουροι, καὶ τὰ ἐ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.47, compare 3.180; ἄρτιον, περιττόν, τέλειον, τὰ ἐ. 2nd c.AD: Nicomachus Gerasenus Mathematicus “Arithmetica Introductio” 1.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__IV.5 neuter substantive εἰκός (which see).
