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εἶκον (eikon)

εἶκον is an Ancient Greek form of ἔοικα, meaning “to be like, seem; (impers.) it is fitting”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of εἰκών, “image, likeness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.886: εἶκον, ἀλευάμενοι βασιληίδος ὄμματα κούρης.

Theocritus, Ἐπιγράμματα 17.3: Ἀνακρέοντος εἰκόνʼ εἶδον ἐν Τέῳ

All forms of ἔοικα (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.