LogeionPerseus analysis of νεικείῃσι:
νεικέω (quarrel, wrangle with): pres subj act 3rd sg (epic)
LSJ entry
νεικέω
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,
Hes. Op. 332;
part. νεικείουσα Theoc. 1.35:
impf. νείκειον Od. 22.26;
iterat. νεικείεσκον Il. 4.241: (
νεῖκος):—
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 Hdt., 8.125,
9.55;
not in Att.:
in later Prose, LXXPr. 10.12,
al.