Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐδικία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐδικία

Structure: εὐδικι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: di/kh

Sense

  1. righteous dealing

Declension

First 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.

Examples

  • θεὸσ ἐνίδρυσε, τοιοῦτον ἐν πόλεσι μίμημα καὶ φέγγοσ ἄρχων ὅστε θεουδὴσ εὐδικίασ; (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 3 9:3)
  • εὐθείᾳ περαίνει κατὰ φύσιν περιπορευόμενοσ οἱο͂ν δ’ ἥλιοσ ἐν οὐρανῷ μίμημα τὸ περικαλλὲσ αὐτοῦ δι’ ἐσόπτρου εἴδωλον ἀναφαίνεται τοῖσ ἐκεῖνον ἐνορᾶν δι’ αὐτοῦ δυνατοῖσ, οὕτω τὸ ἐν πόλεσι φέγγοσ εὐδικίασ καὶ λόγου τοῦ περὶ αὑτὸν ὥσπερ εἰκόνα κατέστησεν, ἣν οἱ μακάριοι καὶ σώφρονεσ ἐκ φιλοσοφίασ ἀπογράφονται πρὸσ τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν πραγμάτων πλάττοντεσ ἑαυτούσ. (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 5 2:1)
  • ἦ γάρ σευ κλέοσ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἱκάνει, ὥσ τέ τευ ἢ βασιλῆοσ ἀμύμονοσ, ὅσ τε θεουδὴσ ἀνδράσιν ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἰφθίμοισιν ἀνάσσων εὐδικίασ ἀνέχῃσι, φέρῃσι δὲ γαῖα μέλαινα πυροὺσ καὶ κριθάσ, βρίθῃσι δὲ δένδρεα καρπῷ, τίκτῃ δ’ ἔμπεδα μῆλα, θάλασσα δὲ παρέχῃ ἰχθῦσ ἐξ εὐηγεσίησ, ἀρετῶσι δὲ λαοὶ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 19:3)

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

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