ἐνίκησε (enikese)

ἐνίκησε is an Ancient Greek form of νικάω, meaning “conquer, win, prevail”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 128 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.54.3: ἐγένετο μὲν οὖν ἔρις τοῖς ἀνθρώποις μὴ λοιμὸν ὠνομάσθαι ἐν τῷ ἔπει ὑπὸ τῶν παλαιῶν, ἀλλὰ λιμόν, ἐνίκησε δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος εἰκότως λοιμὸν εἰρῆσθαι· οἱ γὰρ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μνήμην ἐποιοῦντο. ἢν δέ γε οἶ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 25.3: … λέξανδρος δὲ πατρῴαν ἀρχὴν παραλαβὼν ηὔξησεν καὶ παρὰ πολὺ ἐξέτεινε χρησάμενος τῇ τῆς τύχης ὁρμῇ. ἐπεὶ δ’ οὖν ἐνίκησέ τε καὶ τὸν ὄλεθρον ἐκεῖνον Δαρεῖον ἐν Ἰσσῷ τε καὶ Ἀρβήλοις ἐκράτησεν, ἀποστὰς τῶν πατρῴων προσκυνεῖσθαι ἠξίου …

All forms of νικάω (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.