Included with: ἐπιεικ-ής, ές,
fitting, meet, suitable, τύμβον οὐ μάλα πολλὸν.., ἀλλ᾽ ἐπιεικέα τοῖον not very large but meet in size, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.246; τείσουσι βοῶν ἐπιεικέ᾽ ἀμοιβήν] Refs 8th c.BC+] a fair recompense for them, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.382.—Elsewh. 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has only the _neuter_ ἐπιεικές, either in the phrase ὡς ἐπιεικές] Refs 8th c.BC+] as is meet, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.147, 23.537, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.389 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: or c.infinitive, ὅν κ᾽ ἐπιεικὲς ἀκουέμεν whom it may be meet for you to hear, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.547; ὅπλα.. οἷ᾽ ἐπιεικὲς ἔργ᾽ ἔμεν ἀθανάτων] Refs 8th c.BC+] such as is meet they should be, [[ 19.21, compare 23.50, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.207. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II. after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.1. of statements, rights, etc.,
__II.1.a. reasonable, specious, ἡ δὲ τρίτη τῶν ὁδῶν πολλὸν ἐπιεικεστάτη ἐοῦσα μάλιστα [[ ἔψευσται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; ἐ. πρόφασις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.9; λόγος Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Timaeus” 67d ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐπιεικῆ [[ λέγειν [prev\. author] “Ap.” 34d ] Refs]; ἐ. ὁδός a tolerable road, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crass.” 22. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.1.b. opposed to δίκαιος, fair, equitable, not according to the letter of the law, ἐπανόρθωμα [[ νομίμου δικαίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137b11, compare “Rh.” 1374a26; τῶν δικαίων τὰ ἐπιεικέστερα προτιθεῖσι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὔτε τοὐπ. οὔτε τὴν χάριν οἶδεν, [[ μόνην δ᾽ ἔστερξε τὴν ἁπλῶς δίκην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “fragment” 770, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “fragment” 645; συγχωρεῖν τἀπιεικῆ τινι Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Nubes” 1438; ἐπιεικέστερον ἢ δικαιότερον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.13; ἐ. ὁμολογία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.4; γνώμη Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Vespae” 1027; τὸ ἐ. καὶ σύγγνωμον Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Leges” 757e ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ ἐ., ={ἐπιεικῶς} [[ 3, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]