Having hit/encountered.
Also
Photius kappa148.2, cf.
Hesychius kappa1711 (with the gloss
ἁψάμενος ).
The verb appears only at LXX
II Maccabees 14:43, in this form, the aorist participle active, and with this meaning. The simple verb is also found only once, of finding the range with artillery (
Apollodorus of Damascus,
Poliorcetica 144.11 Wescher). The adjective
εὔθικτος and its adverb are, however, somewhat commoner, usually of a witticism that hits the mark (
epsilon 3498).
The gloss is interesting evidence that this compound of
τυγχάνω (
tau 1147,
epsilon 3344,
tau 430) can retain for the lexicographers its original sense of deliberately hitting the mark (
eta 286), without the overtones of pure chance (cf.
tau 1232, at 1233,
tau 1234) that become more and more important to its meaning in later Greek; cf.
epsilon 2738,
epsilon 2674,
epsilon 2748,
epsilon 2673.
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