ἧκεν (heken)

ἧκεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἥκω, meaning “have come, be present”.

It can also be a form of ἵημι, “to send, let go, hurl”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 505 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.466: ἧκεν ἐποτρύνας. τοῦ δʼ ἐκ μεγάροιο κιόντος

Lucian of Samosata, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam 32: … ους καὶ οὓς ἥκιστα σὺ οἴει. Αἰσχίνης μέντοι ὁ Σωκρατικός, οὗτος ὁ τοὺς μακροὺς καὶ ἀστείους διαλόγους γράψας, ἧκέν ποτε εἰς Σικελίαν κομίζων αὐτούς, εἴ πως δύναιτο διʼ αὐτῶν γνωσθῆναι Διονυσίῳ τῷ τυράννῳ, καὶ τὸν Μιλτιάδην ἀ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.4: Ἡκεν οὐν τούτων γεγονότων εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ὁ Ζοροβάβελ καὶ τοῖς ὁμοφύλοις τὰ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως εὐηγγελισατο· καὶ ὅσοι …

All forms of ἥκω (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.