αἰδώς, όος,
contraction οῦς, η (late nominative plural αἰδοί [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 386)] Refs 5th c.BC+], as a moral feeling, reverence, awe, respect for the feeling or opinion of others or for one's own conscience, and so shame, self-respect (in full ἑαυτοῦ αἰδώς[[ 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 9p.433M.)] Refs 5th c.AD+], sense of honour, αἰδῶ θέσθ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.561] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἴσχε γὰρ αἰ. καὶ δέος[[ [prev. work] 657, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 28, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 179, etc.; αἰ. σωφροσύνης πλεῖστον μετέχει, αἰσχύνης δὲ εὐψυχία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 911, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1108a32, etc.; αἰδοῖ μειλιχίῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.172; so ἀλλά με κωλύει αἴδως 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 55 (Sapphus est versus); ἅμα κιθῶνι ἐκδυομένῳ συνεκδύεται καὶ τὴν αἰδῶ γυνή 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δακρύων πένθιμον αἰδῶ tears of grief and shame, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 579; αἰ. τίς μ᾽ ἔχει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 217d; αἰ. καὶ δίκη [prev. author] “Prt.” 322c; αἰδοῦς ἐμπίπλασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.4] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sobriety, moderation, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.115; αἰδῶ λαβεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 345. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 regard for others, respect, reverence, αἰδοῦς οὐδεμιῆς ἔτυχον[[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1266, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 460] Refs 6th c.BC+]; αἰ. τοκέων respect for them, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.218] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἐμὴν αἰδῶ respect for me, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 699] Refs 4th c.BC+]; regard for friends, αἰδοῦς ἀχαλκεύτοισιν ἔζευκται πέδαις[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 595] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially regard for the helpless, compassion, αἰδοῦς κῦρσαι[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 247] Refs 5th c.BC+]; forgiveness, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.26, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 867e (compare αἰδέομαι 11.2). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]