Related to: ἱκάνω [ῐκᾱ],
imperfect ἵκᾱνον [ῑ by the augment], used only in these tenses, the future, aorist, and perfect being supplied by ἱκνέομαι:—lengthened form of ἵκω, found in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, sometimes in Trag., come, ἐς Χρύσην, ἐς Σκαιὰς.. πύλας, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.431, 9.354; ἐπὶ νῆας 2.17; ἐνθάδε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.492; so οἴκαδε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1337 (_anapaest meter_); οἷ ἱκάνομεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 8; πρὸς ἐσχατιάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.43, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.96: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly with accusative, to come to, ἱκάνω νῆας Ἁχαιῶν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.501; ἱκανέμεν ἡμέτερον δῶ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.139; later ἱ. δόμους 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 159 (troch.): _absolutely_, ἦ φίλοι ἄνδρες ἱκάνετον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.197; εὖ ἱκάνεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1102. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 reach, attain to, [ἐλάτη] δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.288; φωνὴ δέ οἱ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν 15.686; [ἄνεμος] αἰπὺν ἱ. οὐρανόν 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 13.21 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἥβης μέτρον ἱ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.217, 19.532. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II with accusative person, especially of grief, hardship, etc.; με πένθος ἱκάνει [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.169; μέγα πένθος Ἁχαιΐδα γαῖαν ἱκάνει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.254 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τάφος δέ οἱ ἦτορ ἵ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.93 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄλγος, γῆρας, δύη, κάματος, κῆδος, ὀϊζύς, μόρος, ἱκάνει τινά,[[ 2.41, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.321 (variant), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.81, 5.457, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.245, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.289, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.465; ὅτε μιν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι 1.610 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; με παλαίφατα θέσφαθ᾽ ἱκάνει they are fulfilled upon me, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.507: with double _accusative_, μιν ἄχος κραδίην καὶ θυμὸν ἱ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.171: rarely with _dative_, σφῶϊν ἐελδομένοισιν ἱκάνω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.209. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]