Sense

1. worthy, deserving of
2. deserved, meet, with one's deserts
3. worth mentioning

Examples

• ἦ τοῦδ ἐπαίνου τὸ στράτευμ ἐπάξιον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:24)
• ξυνήλθομεν δὲ βουκόλοι καὶ ποιμένες, κοινῶν λόγων δώσοντες ἀλλήλοις ἔριν ὡς δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τ ἐπάξια: (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:1)
• Ἡρακλέα, ὀψιγόνου οἱ γενομένης τῆς παιδός, ἐπεί τε δὴ ἐγγὺς ἔμαθεν ἑωυτῷ ἐοῦσαν τὴν τελευτήν, οὐκ ἔχοντα ὅτῳ ἀνδρὶ ἐκδῷ τὴν παῖδα ἑωυτοῦ ἐπαξίῳ, αὐτὸν μιγῆναι τῇ παιδὶ ἑπταέτεϊ ἐούσῃ, ὡς γένος ἐξ οὗ τε κἀκείνης ὑπολείπεσθαι Ἰνδῶν βασιλέας. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 9 2:2)
• οὐκ ἀμφιβόλως οἶμαί σφ ἐρατῶν ἐκ βαθυκόλπων στηθέων ἥσειν ἄλγος ἐπάξιον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, anapests7)
• ὁρῶ κυροῦντα τόνδε τῶν ἐπαξίων. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:8)
• ἐπάξιος μέν, Οἰδίπους, κατοικτίσαι, αὐτός τε παῖδές θ αἵδ: (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 5:1)
• εἰς ναὸν τοῦ Διὸς κτισθέντα παρὰ τῶν Κεκροπιδῶν αὐτοῦ Ζηνὸς ὅδ οἶκος ἐπάξιος: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7011)

Similar forms

• ἐπάξιον (13)
• ἐπάξια (4)
• ἐπαξίαν (3)
• ἐπαξίως (2)
• ἐπαξίων (2)
• ἐπάξιος (2)
• ἐπαξιοῖ (1)
• ἐπαξίῳ (1)
• ἐπαξίοις (1)
• ἐπαξίωσιν (1)
• ἐπάξιοι (1)
• ἐπαξιώσας (1)
• ἐπαξία (1)
• ἐπαξιῶ? (1)

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