ἄδῐκος (adikos)

Where it lives

Minos 10 · 35.05/10k
Apology 6 · 30/10k
Proverbia 25 · 22.5/10k
Euthyphro 11 · 21.27/10k
Alcibiades 1 19 · 18.53/10k
Gorgias 46 · 17.48/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 12 · 17.38/10k
Job 20 · 15/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 73 · 12.96/10k
Cleitophon 2 · 12.92/10k
Fragments 5 · 12.55/10k
Republic 107 · 12.04/10k

Densest 12 of 107 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄδῐκος · adikos — LSJ

wrongdoing, unrighteous, unjust, unjust in, towards, plays unfairly, so unjust as to

wrongdoing, unrighteous, unjust: ἄνθρωποι Hes. Op. 260: Comp. -ώτερος ib. 272; δίκαν ἐξ ἀδίκων ἀπαιτῶ A. Ch. 398 (lyr.): Sup. -ώτατος S. Tr. 1011 (lyr.): ἄ. εἴς τι unjust in a thing, ἔς τινα towards a person, Hdt. 2.119; εἰς χρήματα X. Cyr. 8.8.6; περί τιναib. 27; ἄ. [ἐν τῷ ἀστραγαλίζειν] one who plays unfairly, Pl. Alc. 1.110b: c. inf., so unjust as to . . , Ep.Hebr. 6.10.

2 obstinate, unmanageable, hard

ἄ. ἵπποι obstinate, unmanageable, X. Cyr. 2.2.26; ἄ. γνάθος the hard mouth of a horse, Id. Eq. 3.5.

II unjust, unrighteous, an assault, wrong, ill-gotten, unrighteous, unrighteous, vexatious

of things, unjust, unrighteous, ἔργα Hes. Op. 334, Hdt. 1.5; ἕργματα Thgn. 380, Sol. 13.12; ἄδικα φρονέειν Thgn. 395; ἄ. λόγος freq. in Ar. Nu.; ἄρχειν χειρῶν ἀ. begin an assault, Antipho 4.2.1, Lys. 4.11, cf. X. Cyr. 1.5.13, D. 47.39; τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τὸ ἄ., τὰ δίκαια καὶ τὰ ἄ. right and wrong, Pl. Grg. 460a, etc.; πλοῦτος ἄ. ill-gotten, unrighteous, Isoc. 1.38; ζυγὸν ἄ. LXX Am. 8.5; νομὴ ἄ. οὐδὲν ἰσχύει PTeb. 286.7 (ii A.D.); ἡ ἄ. . . συναγωγὴ ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικός the unrighteous union, Pl. Tht.

2

of the punishment of wrongdoing, Ζεὺς νέμων ἄδικα κακοῖς A. Supp. 404 (lyr.), cf. E. Or. 647.

III on which the courts were shut, who has not appeared in court

ἄ. ἡμέρα, i.e. ἄνευ δικῶν, a day on which the courts were shut, Luc. Lex. 9: δίκαιος ἄ. who has not appeared in court, Archipp. 46.

IV without reason

Adv. -κως Sol. 13.7, A. Ag. 1546; τοὺς ἀ. θνῄσκοντας S. El. 113 (anap.); εἴτε ὦν δὴ δικαίως εἴτε ἀ. jure an injuria, Hdt. 6.137; δικαίως καὶ ἀ. Pl. Lg. 743b; οὐκ ἀ. not without reason, h.Merc. 316, Simon. 89.3, Pl. Phd. 72a.

In the wild

ἄδικον · adikon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 397–398
ἀδίκως · adikōs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1542–1546
ἀδίκων · adikōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 398
ἄδικα · adika Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 402–404
ἄδικος · adikos Aristotle, Ars Poetica 18
ἀδίκως · adikōs Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..12 (DIORISIS sentence 134)

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Where it came from

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