δίκην (diken)

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

Found 2,012 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1100: ἀλλὰ Διὸς δείδοικα δίκην ἰθεῖαν ἀτίσσαι.

Euripides, Electra 955: νικᾶν δοκείτω τὴν Δίκην, πρὶν ἂν πέλας

Plutarch, De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae Apparet 30: … τὰ θάλατταν ἐπιλάμπουσιν. ὅ τι δʼ ἂν μὴ καλῶς περὶ ταῦτα πράξωσιν ἀλλʼ ὑπʼ ὀργῆς ἢ πρὸς ἄδικον χάριν ἢ φθόνῳ, δἰκην τίνουσιν· ὠθοῦνται γὰρ αὖθις ἐπὶ γῆν συνειργνύμενοι σώμασιν ἀνθρωπίνοις. ἐκ δὲ τῶν βελτιόνων ἐκείνων οἵ τε πε …

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.