νεικέω
neikeo
quarrel, wrangle with
Appears 37 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
νεικέω, fut. -έσω Il. 10.115: aor. ἐνείκεσα, Ep. νείκεσσα or νείκεσα, 3.38, 10.158: also pres. νεικείω 2.277, etc.; subj. νεικείῃσι, νεικείῃ, 1.579, Op. 332; part. νεικείουσα 1.35: impf. νείκειον Od. 22.26; iterat. νεικείεσκον Il. 4.241: (νεῖκος):—A. quarrel, wrangle with one, μή μοι ὀπίσσω νεικείῃ Od. 17.189; ἔριδος πέρι θυμοβόροιο νεικεῦσʼ ἀλλήλῃσι quarrel one with another, Il. 20.254; ἐνείκεον εἵνεκα ποινῆς 18.498: c. acc. cogn., νείκεα . . νεικεῖν ἀλλήλοισιν ἐναντίον 20.252; νεικέσκομεν οἴω, we two alone strove with him, is prob. corrupt in Od. 11.512 (νικάσκομεν ): abs. in part. νεικέων 9.55. II. trans., chide, rail at, upbraid, c. acc. pers., Il. 1.521, al.; Ἀγαμέμνονα ν. μύθῳ 2.224; αἰσχροῖς, ὀνειδείοις, χολωτοῖσιν ἐπέεσσιν, 3.38, 21.480, Od. 22.225, etc.; ὃς νείκεσσε θεάς . . , τὴν δʼ ᾔνησʼ [Paris] insulted the goddesses (Hera and Athena), but praised the other (Aphrodite), Il. 24.29.—Ep. Verb, used twice by , 8.125, 9.55; not in Att.: in later Prose, Pr. 10.12, al.
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