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δίκαιοι (dikaioi)

δίκαιοι is an Ancient Greek form of δίκαιος, meaning “just, right, fair”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 177 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1180: λήθομεν ἔμπεδον, οἵ τε θεουδέες οὐδὲ δίκαιοι.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.40.4: καίτοι δίκαιοί γ’ ἐστὲ μάλιστα μὲν ἐκποδὼν στῆναι ἀμφοτέροις, εἰ δὲ μή, τοὐναντίον ἐπὶ τούτους μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἰέναι (Κορινθίοις μέν γε ἔνσπονδοί ἐστε, Κερκυραίοις δὲ οὐδὲ δι’ ἀνοκωχῆς πώποτ’ ἐγένεσθε), καὶ τὸν νόμον μὴ καθιστάναι ὥστε τοὺς ἑτέρων ἀφισταμένους δέχεσθαι.

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 640: δρᾶσαι δικαιοῖ δυοῖν ἀποκρίνας κακοῖν

All forms of δίκαιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.