ἐξικνεῖσθαι (exikneisthai)

ἐξικνεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐξικνέομαι, meaning “reach, arrive at”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 30: … ν αἰτίαν μὴ ἱκανῶς πύθωνται τῆς μεταβολῆς, ἀπίασι τοῦ θεοῦ καταγνόντες, οὐχ ἡμῶν οὐδʼ αὑτῶν ὡς ἀδυνάτων ὄντων ἐξικνεῖσθαι τῷ λογισμῷ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διάνοιαν.

Procopius, De Bellis 3.13.15: … ατοπέδῳ οἱ στρατιῶται σιτίζεσθαι, δὶς μὲν ἐπάναγκες ἐς τὸν πνιγέα εἰσάγεσθαι, ἐπιμελῶς δὲ οὕτως ὀπτᾶσθαι ὥστε ἐξικνεῖσθαί τε ἐπὶ πλεῖστον καὶ μὴ χρόνῳ βραχεῖ διαφθείρεσθαι, τόν τε οὕτως ὀπτώμενον ἄρτον ἀνάγκη ἐλάσσω τὸν σταθμὸν ἕλκ …

All forms of ἐξικνέομαι (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.