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ἄξιος, ία, ιον
(ος, ον [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 8.314), for Αγ-τιος,] Refs 4th c.AD+] counterbalancing,[[compare ἄγω v1] Refs]: hence properly weighing as much, of like value, worth as much as, with genitive, βοὸς ἄ.[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.885] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῦν δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος we are not—all together—worth one Hector,[[ 8.234, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 7.21; πάντων Ζεὺς ἄξιον ἦμαρ ἔδωκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.719] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so πολλοῦ ἄ. worth much, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.28, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185b, etc.; πλείονος ἄ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 235b, etc.; πλείστου ἄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παντός, τοῦ παντὸς ἄ., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 275, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παντὸς ἄ., with infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 797] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λόγου ἄ., ={ἀξιόλογος}, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.73, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπουδῆς, μνήμης ἄ., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.35a,172e:—opposed to to these are οὐδενὸς ἄ. 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 456; ἢ παντὸς ἢ τὸ παράπαν οὐδενός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 64d; ὀλίγου [prev. author] “Grg.” 497b, etc.; σμικροῦ [prev. author] “R.” 504d, etc.; βραχέος [prev. author] “Lg.” 692c] Refs 6th c.BC+]; μείονος, ἐλάττονος ἄ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.50, “Cyr.” 2.2.14; πολλαπλασίου τιμήματος ἄ. κτήσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1306b12] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also εἰς ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς ἄ. worth up to a sum of.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 with dative person, σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς 'tis worth a return to thee, i.e. will bring thee a return, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.318; πολέος δέ οἱ ἄξιος ἔσται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.562; βασιλεῖ ἂν πολλοῦ ἄξιοι γένοιντο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.14. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 absolutely, worthy, goodly, ἄξια δῶρα[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.261] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄ. ὦνος a goodly price, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.429] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅθεν κέ τοι ἄξιον ἄλφοι it would bring thee a good price,[[ 20.383; φέροντες ὅ τι ἕκαστος ἄξιον εἶχε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.b in Attic dialect in an exactly opposite sense, 'good value for the money', i.e. cheap, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 672, 895] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative,[[ [prev. work] 645; ὡς ἀξιώτατον πρίασθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.18; ὡς ἄ. γεγόνασιν οἱ πυροὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 3.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 deserved, meet, due, δίκη[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 298, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 12.19; χάρις [prev. author] “HG” 1.6.11] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων fit suffering for fit deeds, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1527, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 of persons, οἱ ἑωυτοῦ ἄξιοι those of one's own rank, his peers, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__6 sufficient for, with genitive, ἄ. τοῦ πολέμου τὰ χρήματα[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.27. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__7 αἰδοῦς ἀξίαν.. τὴν προθυμίαν μᾶλλον ἢ θράσους more like modesty than rashness, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 291b25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], in moral relation, worthy, estimable, of persons and things, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.224, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν ἀξία nothing worth, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 445; ἀξίαν κἀπ᾽ ἀξίων [prev. author] “Eu.” 435; ἀξίων γεννητόρων ἤθη φυλάσσεις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 worthy of, deserving, mostly with genitive of things, ἄξιον φυγῆς, ἄξια στεναγμάτων, γέλωτος, [[ [prev. author] “Med.” 1124, “Or.” 1326, “Heracl.” 507; ἐγκωμίων τί ἀξιώτερον ἤ..; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3: with _genitive_ _person_, ποιεῖν ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.71; ἄξιον τοῦ πατρός 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.80; ἄξια τοῦ Μαραθῶνος διανοεῖσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2.b with genitive of things et dative person, ἡμῖν δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἄξιος τιμῆς is worthy of honour at our hands, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 309; πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἄ. ὑμῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 633; ἄ. πλείστου Λακεδαιμονίοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.81; θανάτου τῇ πόλει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, compare 1.2.62; εἰμὶ δ᾽ οὐ τούτων ὑμῖν ἄ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.217; χάριτος ἄ. τῇ πόλει 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.10; later τιμῆς ἄ. παρὰ πάντων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 with infinitive, Προθοήνορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι ἄ. worthy to be killed instead of him, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.472, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76; τίεσθαι δ᾽ ἀξιώτατος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 531; ἄ. θρήνων τυχεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 924] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄξιοι δουλεύειν only fit to be slaves, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1254b36; also ἄ. σέβειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 315 (Elmsl.). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.b ἄξιός εἰμι, like{δίκαιός εἰμι}, I deserve to.., ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 324; ἄξιός εἰμι ἀπολαῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.19] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, the infinitive being supplied, authorized to act, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.132] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. γάρ, emphatically, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 143e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.c later ἄ. ἵνα[[ NT.John.1.27. ] NT]
__II.4 ἄξιόν [ἐστι] 'tis meet, fit, due, ἄξιον εἶναι τρεῖς ἑνὸς ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.446; ἄ. μνήμην ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14] Refs 8th c.BC+]: later with future infinitive, ἄ. διαπορήσειν[[ 1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus ] Refs 1st c.BC+]in D.[[ 9.15. ] Refs]
__II.4.b with dative person et infinitive, τῇ πόλει γὰρ ἄξιον ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν νο̄ρα 'tis meet for the city, is worth her while.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 205; τί σοι ζῆν ἄξιο; [prev. author] “Nu.” 1074, compare “Av.” 548; ἄξιόν γε πᾶσιν ἐπολολύξαι [prev. author] “Eq.” 616; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus as ὡς οὐκ ἄξιον εἴη βασιλεῖ ἀφεῖναι κτλ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] that it was not meet for him.., [[ “An.” 2.3.25. ] Refs]
__II.4.c the infinitive is sometimes omitted, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι 'tis meet in the eyes of Hellas [so to do], [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and sometimes the dative, ἄξιόν ἐστι operae pretium est, it is worth while, ἐνθυμηθῆναι[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.21; γαμεῖν οὐκ ἄξιον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 628. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III adverb ἀξίως, with genitive, ἐμάχοντο ἀξίως λόγου[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.112; οὔτε ἑωυτοῦ ἀ. [prev. author] 3.125; οὐκ ἀ. ἀπηγήσιος [prev. passage]; τῆς ἀσικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ θεοῦ, τῆς θεᾶς, [[ “OGI” 331.9 (Pergam.), “Inscription Magn.” 33.30, cf. NT.1Thes.2.12: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 133, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; κολάσετε ἀξίως as they deserve, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40.] Refs 5th c.BC+]
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