ἐφικνέομαι,
Ionic dialect ἐπ-, future ἐφίξυμαι [[ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 6.3: ] Refs 6th c.BC+]aorist 2 ἐφῑκόμην, Epic dialect -ῐκόμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.613 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἐφῖγμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.101: ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I reach at, aim at, with genitive, of two combatants, ἅμα δ᾽ ἀλλήλων ἐφίκοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.613 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; simply, reach or hit with a stick, εὐ μάλα μου ἐφικέσθαι πειράσεται [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 292a; ὅσων ἂν ἐφικέσθαι δυνηθῶσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.227; ἐφῖκται πάντων ἡ τούτου κακοπραγμοσύνη 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.101, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.267c, etc.; σφενδόνῃ οὐκ ἂν ἐφικοίμην αὐτόσε 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 55.20; τὰ βέλη ἐ. ἄχρι πρὸς τὸν σκοπόν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 36. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 reach, extend, ὅσον ὁ ἥλιος ἐ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1. 7.1, etc.; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἀνθρώπων μνήμη ἐ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἐπὶ τοσαύτην γῆν τῷ ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ φόβῳ to reach by the terror of his name over.., [[[prev. work] 1.1.5 ] Refs]; ἐ. ἐς τὸ λεπτότατον to reach to the smallest matter, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JConf.” 19; ὅπου μὴ ἐ. ἡ λεοντῆ, προσραπτέον.. τὴν ἀλωπεκῆν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.190e ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; with participle, ἐ. φθεγγόμενον [[ [prev. author] “TG” 18; ἐ. βλέποντα μέχρι τινός 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 62.1. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]