αἴτι-ος, α, ον,
more rarely ος, ον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 547: (see. αἰτία)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— culpable, responsible, ἐπεὶ οὔ τί μοι αἴτιοί εἰσιν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.153, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 10.34, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.214] Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative αἰτιώτερος[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.20: _superlative_, τοὺς αἰτιωτάτους] Refs 5th c.BC+] the most guilty, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.50; αἰ. τινος [prev. author] 3.52. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 substantive, αἴτιος, ὁ, the accused, the culprit, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 70, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ αἴ. τοῦ πατρός they who have sinned against my father, [[[prev. work] 273] Refs]:—with genitive of things, οἱ αἴ. τοῦ φόνου[[ [prev. work] 117, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 590, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.200. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II responsible for, with genitive of things, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴτιός τινός τινι being the cause of a thing to a person, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.57, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.100] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, αἴ. τὸν ἠέρα ξηρὸν εἶναι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.26; τοῦ μὴ φαλακροῦσθαι [prev. author] 3.12, etc.; αἴ. θανεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1173; αἰ. πεμφθῆναι ἄγγελον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.23, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.82; αἴτιος τὸ σὲ ἀποκρίνασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 190e] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative, τοῦ.. ἐλευθέραν εἶναι.. αἰτιώτερον[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.5, compare 51.21: _superlative_ αἰτιώτατος, ἐν τῷ στενῷ ναυμαχῆσαι] Refs 4th c.BC+] mainly instrumental in causing the sea-fight, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.74; αἰ. τοῦ μὴ ἀποθανεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.42; -ώτατόν τι καὶ τελέως δραστικόν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]