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δίκης (dikes)

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

Found 400 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1219: λευγαλέην, ἐπεὶ οὔτι δίκης ἀλέγοντες ἔναιον.

Euripides, Hippolytus 1171: πῶς καὶ διώλετ’; εἰπέ· τῷ τρόπῳ Δίκης

Hesiod, Works and Days 36: ἰθείῃσι δίκῃς, αἵ τʼ ἐκ Διός εἰσιν ἄρισται.

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.