ἄξιος
First/Second declension Adjective;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἄξιος
ἀξίᾱ
ἄξιον
Structure:
ἀξι
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: a)/gw IV, and so properly weighing as much.
Sense
- counterbalancing, weighing as much as, of like value
- worthy, fit
Declension
First/Second declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἆρ’, ἔφη, ὦ Ἀντίσθενεσ, εἰσί τινεσ ἀξίαι φίλων, ὥσπερ οἰκετῶν; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 3:1)
- σκοποῦμαι δὴ τοῦτο, ἔφη, εἰ ἄρα, ὥσπερ τῶν οἰκετῶν, οὕτω καὶ τῶν φίλων εἰσὶν ἀξίαι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 3:4)
- ἂν δὲ δυσδιάκριτοι μὲν αἱ ἀξίαι δύσκολοι δ’ οἱ ἄνδρεσ ὦσιν, ὁρ́α τίνα μηχανὴν ἐπάγω· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 21:15)
- καθόλου πάντα μιχθέντα, καὶ καρποὶ καὶ χρήματα καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἀξίαι καὶ δυνάμεισ, διπλάσια τὰ παῤ ἀμφοτέροισ γίγνεται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 77:7)
- τοιγάρτοι πολλαὶ μὲν ἱστορίαι σπουδῆσ ἄξιαι γράφονται τοῖσ νῦν, πολλοὶ δὲ λόγοι πολιτικοὶ χαρίεντεσ ἐκφέρονται φιλόσοφοί τε συντάξεισ οὐ μὰ Δία εὐκαταφρόνητοι ἄλλαι τε πολλαὶ καὶ καλαὶ πραγματεῖαι καὶ Ῥωμαίοισ καὶ Ἕλλησιν εὖ μάλα διεσπουδασμέναι προεληλύθασί τε καὶ προελεύσονται κατὰ τὸ εἰκόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 3 1:1)
- θύσω, φόνον γε θῆλυν, ὥσπερ ἄξιαι, πολὺν ταράξασ ἐν Κιθαιρῶνοσ πτυχαῖσ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:14)
- πολλῶν οὖν καὶ ποικίλων εἰρημένων ἐν ταῖσ πομπαῖσ ταύταισ μόνα ἐξελεξάμεθα ἐν οἷσ ἦν χρυσὸσ καὶ ἄργυροσ, καὶ γὰρ διαθέσεισ πολλαὶ ἀκοῆσ ἦσαν ἄξιαι καὶ θηρίων πλήθη καὶ ἵππων καὶ λέοντεσ παμμεγέθεισ εἴκοσι καὶ τέσσαρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 2:1)
- πράωσ, διδάσκοντα καὶ παραμυθούμενον ὡσ οὐκ ἄξιαι τῆσ ἐκείνων ἀρετῆσ εἰσι καὶ δόξησ. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 13 31:1)
- καὶ γὰρ τῇ πόλει ἁπάσῃ αἱ τῶν ὑμετέρων προγόνων ἀρεταὶ πλείστου ἄξιαι ἐγένοντο. (Andocides, Speeches, 228:1)
