νίκην (niken)

νίκην is an Ancient Greek form of νίκη, meaning “victory”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 537 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.49.3: … ο ὑπό τε τοῦ πλήθους καὶ ὄχλου τῶν νεῶν, καὶ μᾶλλόν τι πιστεύοντες τοῖς ἐπὶ τοῦ καταστρώματος ὁπλίταις ἐς τὴν νίκην, οἳ καταστάντες ἐμάχοντο ἡσυχαζουσῶν τῶν νεῶν· διέκπλοι δ’ οὐκ ἦσαν, ἀλλὰ θυμῷ καὶ ῥώμῃ τὸ πλέον ἐναυμάχουν ἢ …

Euripides, Ion 1529: Νίκην Ἀθηνᾶν Ζηνὶ γηγενεῖς ἔπι,

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 61.6: Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ νικησάντων Ἀθηναίους καὶ τοὺς συμμάχους ἐν Κορίνθῳ, πυθόμενος τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πολεμίων νεκρῶν φεῦ τᾶς Ἑλλάδος εἶπεν ἃ τοσούτους ὑφʼ αὑτᾶς ἀπολώλεκεν, ὅσοις ἀρκεῖ τοὺς βαρβάρους νικῆν ἅπαντας.

All forms of νίκη (declension 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.