ἐοίκασι (eoikasi)

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

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 6.3: … ριῶν ὄντων, ἃ πεπόνθασιν οἱ πολλοὶ πρὸς τὸ θεῖον, ζήλου καὶ φόβου καὶ τιμῆς, ζηλοῦν μὲν αὐτοὺς καὶ μακαρίζειν ἐοίκασι κατὰ τὸ ἄφθαρτον καὶ ἀΐδιον, ἐκπλήττεσθαι δὲ καὶ δεδιέναι κατὰ τὸ κύριον καὶ δυνατόν, ἀγαπᾶν δὲ καὶ τιμᾶν καὶ …

Lucian of Samosata, Soleocista 9: … ι, σὺ δὲ οὐδὲ τὸν μαντευόμενον κατενόησας. Μὰ τοὺς θεούς, οὐ γὰρ ἔμαθον. Εἰ ἄρα καθ’ εἷς λανθάνει σε περιιών; Ἐοίκασί γε. Ὁ δὲ καθ’ εἷς πῶς παρῆλθεν; Οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἔμαθον. Οἶσθα δέ τινα μνηστευόμενον αὑτῷ γάμον; Τί οὖν τοῦτο; Ὅτι …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 6.90.3: … ν ἐξουσίαν οὐκέθʼ ὑπηρετικὴν ἑτέρων ἔχουσιν, ὡς πρότερον, ἐπιτέτραπται δʼ αὐτοῖς πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα, καὶ σχεδὸν ἐοίκασί πως κατὰ τὰ πλεῖστα τοῖς παρʼ Ἕλλησιν ἀγορανόμοις.

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.