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φιλοδίκαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοδίκαιος φιλοδίκαιον

Structure: φιλοδικαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving the right, loving justice

Examples

  • οὕτω μὲν ὁ δῆμοσ ἦν φιλοδίκαιοσ, οὕτω δὲ τῷ δήμῳ πιστὸσ ὁ ἀνὴρ καὶ βέβαιοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 22 2:4)
  • τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον καὶ τὰ δίκαια τῷ φιλοδικαίῳ καὶ ὅλωσ τὰ κατ’ ἀρετὴν τῷ φιλαρέτῳ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 84:1)
  • ᾧ καὶ διέδειξαν οὐ φιλολάκωνεσ ὄντεσ, ἀλλ̓ ἁπλῶσ φιλέλληνεσ καὶ φιλοδίκαιοι καὶ φιλελεύθεροι καὶ μισοπόνηροι καὶ μισοτύραννοι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. loving the right

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

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