ἔοικεν (eoiken)

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

Found 1,091 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.332: ἄλλα μὲν ὅσσα τε νηὶ ἐφοπλίσσασθαι ἔοικεν

Plato, Cratylus 414: … ἀπὸ τῆς θηλῆς τι φαίνεται ἐπωνομάσθαι· ἡ δὲ θηλὴ ἆρά γε, ὦ Ἑρμόγενες, ὅτι τεθηλέναι ποιεῖ ὥσπερ τὰ ἀρδόμενα; ἔοικέν γε, ὦ Σώκρατες. καὶ μὴν αὐτό γε τὸ θάλλειν τὴν αὔξην μοι δοκεῖ ἀπεικάζειν τὴν τῶν νέων, ὅτι ταχεῖα καὶ ἐξαιφν …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 47: … τατον, αὐτὸν ἕκαστον ἀρξάμενον διὰ πάσης προαιρέσεως χωρῆσαι καὶ ἐπισκέψασθαι ἀκριβῶς τὰ ὑπὸ πάντων λεγόμενα; Ἔοικεν ἀπό γε τούτων. πλὴν ἐκεῖνο μὴ ἐναντίον ᾖ ὃ μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἔλεγες, ὡς οὐ ῥᾴδιον ἐπιδόντα ἑαυτὸν καὶ πετάσαντα τ …

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.