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δίκαν (dikan)

δίκαν is an Ancient Greek form of δίκη, meaning “justice, right; lawsuit, penalty”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 780: ἢ ξὺν φθόνῳ σφάλλειν δυνάμει τε δίκαν.

Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 949: Διὸς κόρα—Δίκαν δέ νιν

All forms of δίκη (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.