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ἔνδικος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνδικος ἔνδικον

Structure: ἐνδικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di/kh

Sense

  1. according to right, right, just, legitimate, truth
  2. righteous, just, upright, who has better right or more reason
  3. right, with justice, fairly
  4. truly, indeed
  5. justly, naturally, as one has a right to expect

Examples

  • τίσ γὰρ δεδοικὼσ μηδὲν ἔνδικοσ βροτῶν; (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 8:2)
  • τίσ μοι φανεῖται πίστισ ἔνδικοσ; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:3)
  • πατέρων τε καὶ τεκόντων γόοσ ἔνδικοσ ματεύει τὸ πᾶν ἀμφιλαφήσ ταραχθείσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 23)
  • εἰσ τὸ αὐτό Μήδοισ ἐλπισθεῖσα τροπαιοφόροσ λίθοσ εἶναι, ἠλλάχθην μορφὴν καίριον εἰσ Νέμεσιν, ἔνδικοσ ἱδρυνθεῖσα θεὰ Ῥαμνοῦντοσ ἐπ’ ὄχθαισ νίκησ καὶ σοφίησ Ἀτθίδι μαρτύριον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2221)
  • ἢ οὐκ ἔνδικοσ ὑμῖν ἡ πόλισ ἐστίν, ἀλλ’ ἐᾷ ἀδίκωσ τύπτειν ἀλλήλουσ τοὺσ πολίτασ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 67:7)

Synonyms

  1. righteous

  2. right

  3. truly

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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