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.
- ἐπέστρεψε δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐκ τοῦ κήπου, Ἀμάν δὲ ἐπιπεπτώκει ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην ἀξιῶν τὴν βασίλισσαν. εἶπε δὲ ὁ βασιλεύσ. ὥστε καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα βιάζῃ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ μου̣ Ἀμὰν δὲ ἀκούσασ διετράπη τῷ προσώπῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 7:8)
- ἀξιῶν γὰρ ὁ Κορίνθιοσ τοὺσ προεστηκότασ τῆσ Πελοποννήσου φυλάττειν αὐτῆσ τὸ ἀξίωμα πρὸσ τὰσ ἔξω πόλεισ, οἱο͂ν παρὰ τῶν πατέρων παρέλαβον, ταῦτα λέγει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 142)
- καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ἤδη τοῦ σκέμματοσ τοῦτο ἐτύγχανεν,^ εἰ δοκιμαστέοσ εὐνοῦχοσ ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν παραγγέλλων ^ καὶ νέων προστασίαν ἐγχειρισθῆναι ἀξιῶν, τοῦ μὲν καὶ σχῆμα καὶ σώματοσ εὐμοιρίαν προσεῖναι φιλοσόφῳ δεῖν λέγοντοσ, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, πώγωνα βαθὺν ἔχειν αὐτὸν καὶ τοῖσ προσιοῦσι καὶ μανθάνειν βουλομένοισ ἀξιόπιστον καὶ πρέποντα ταῖσ μυρίαισ ἃσ χρὴ παρὰ βασιλέωσ ἀποφέρεσθαι, τὸ δὲ τοῦ εὐνούχου καὶ τῶν βακήλων χεῖρον εἶναι · (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 8:2)
- Ἐμελλεν ἄρα μηδὲ ὁ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ βίοσ τὸ παντάπασιν ἄμοιροσ ἔσεσθαι ἀνδρῶν λόγου καὶ μνήμησ ἀξίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ σώματοσ ἀρετὴν ὑπερφυᾶ καὶ γνώμην ἄκρωσ φιλόσοφον ἐκφαίνειν λέγω δὲ εἴσ τε τὸν Βοιώτιον Σώστρατον ἀναφέρων, ὃν Ἡρακλέα οἱ Ἕλληνεσ ἐκάλουν καὶ ᾤοντο εἶναι, καὶ μάλιστα εἰσ Δημώνακτα τὸν φιλόσοφον, οὓσ καὶ εἶδον αὐτὸσ καὶ ἰδὼν ἐθαύμασα, θατέρῳ δὲ τῷ Δημώνακτι καὶ ἐπὶ μήκιστον συνεγενόμην. (Lucian, (no name) 1:1)
- ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἱκέτευε καὶ κατελιπάρει, ἀφεθῆναι πρὸσ ὀλίγον ἀξιῶν καὶ πολλὰ δώσειν ὑπισχνούμενοσ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 4:3)
