ἴσχῃ (ische)

ἴσχῃ is an Ancient Greek form of ἴσχω, meaning “hold, restrain, check”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.54: κύματα, χὡρίων ὅτʼ ἐπʼ ὠκεανῷ πόδας ἴσχῃ,

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.8: … ηξ ἢ πλευρὸν ἐμπυήσῃ, ἐπανάγηται δὲ διὰ τοῦ πνεύμονος, ἐμπύη ἥδε τοὔνομα. ἢν δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσι καὶ ὁ πνεύμων ἕλκος ἵσχῃ, ἀναβρωθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ διενεχθέντος πύου, τοὔνομα οὐκέτι ἐμπύη, ἀλλὰ φθόην μεταλαμβάνει· ξύνεστι δὲ καὶ πῦρ ξυνε …

All forms of ἴσχω (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.