ἤρκει (erkei)

ἤρκει is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρκέω, meaning “ward off; be enough”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 27.3: … τε θησαυροὺς ἀνοῖξαι τῶν χρημάτων, καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἄγοντας ἐπιδεῖξαι μηδὲν δεομένῳ κατασκευὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν. ἤρκει γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐν ἑαυτῷ τοῦ τρόπου κατανόησιν παρασχεῖν. ὡς δʼ οὖν αὖθις ἤχθη γεγονὼς ἁπάντων θεατής, ἠρώτησεν αὐτ …

Plutarch, Caesar 17.6: ἢρκει γὰρ, ἔφη, τὸ μὴ χρῆσθαι τοῖς ἀπαρέσκουσιν ὁ δὲ τὴν τοιαύτην ἀγροικίαν ἐξελέγχων αὐτός ἐστιν ἄγροικος. ἐν ὁδῷ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 2.307: Ἤρκει μὲν οὖν τὸν δίχα πονηρίας ἀνόητον καὶ τὰ προειρημένα τῶν κακῶν εἰς σύνεσιν καὶ τοῦ συμφέροντος τὴν ἐπίνοιαν ὠ …

All forms of ἀρκέω (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.