ἄδικοι (adikoi)

ἄδικοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀδικέω, meaning “do wrong, wrong”. It is the 3rd person singular present active optative.

It can also be a form of ἄδικος, “unjust”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61.7: … ἐπικαλεσαμένων. καὶ οὕτως οὐ πόλεμος πολέμῳ, εἰρήνῃ δὲ διαφοραὶ ἀπραγμόνως παύονται, οἵ τ’ ἐπίκλητοι εὐπρεπῶς ἄδικοι ἐλθόντες εὐλόγως ἄπρακτοι ἀπίασιν.

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 69.17: ὀνειδισθείς τις τῶν Μεταποντίων εἰς δειλίαν ὑπὸ Λάκωνος, ἀλλὰ μήν ἔφη οὐκ ὀλίγα τῆς ἀλλοτρίας ἔχομεν· ὁ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἄρα ἔφη δειλοὶ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄδικοί ἐστε.

Plato, Alcibiades 1 110: … ἀδίκων, ἀλλὰ μάλα μέγα καὶ θαρραλέως λέγοντος περὶ ὅτου τύχοις τῶν παίδων ὡς πονηρός τε καὶ ἄδικος εἴη καὶ ὡς ἀδικοῖ· ἢ οὐκ ἀληθῆ λέγω; ἀλλὰ τί ἔμελλον ποιεῖν, ὦ Σώκρατες, ὁπότε τίς με ἀδικοῖ; σὺ δʼ εἰ τύχοις ἀγνοῶν εἴτʼ ἀδικο …

All forms of ἀδικέω (conjugation 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.