The corpus record

ἀεικής

aeikes

unseemly, shameful

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Odyssey 27 · 3.11/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Iliad 22 · 1.97/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k

What it meant — LSJ

unseemly, shameful, inconvenience, meagre

unseemly, shameful, ἀεικέα λοιγὸν ἀμύνειν Il. 1.456, al.; ἀεικέα [εἵματα] ἕσσαι Od. 24.250; δεσμός A. Pr. 97, cf. 525; ἀεικεῖ σὺν στολᾷ S. El. 191 (lyr.); -έστερα ἔπεα Hdt. 7.13; οὐδὲν ἀ. παρέχεσθαι cause no inconvenience, Id. 3.24; ἀεικέα μισθόν (v.l. ἀνεικέα, q.v.) meagre, Il. 12.435; so οὐ . . ἀεικέα . . ἄποινα 24.594. Adv. ἀεικῶς Hsch.; Ion. -έως Simon. 13; ἀεικές as Adv., Od. 17.216.

2 strange

οὐδὲν ἀεικές ἐστι, c. inf., it is nothing strange that . . , Hdt. 3.33, 6.98, A. Pr. 1042.

3 injurious, deadly

injurious, deadly, ἰός Opp. H. 2.422.

In the wild

ἀεικές · aeikes Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1041–1042
ἀεικεῖς · aeikeis Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 524–525
ἀεικῆ · aeikē Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 96–97
ἀεικὲς · aeikes Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..12 (DIORISIS sentence 133)
ἀεικέα · aeikea Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..12 (DIORISIS sentence 147)
ἀεικὲς · aeikes Herodotus, Histories 3.24.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3036)

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Where it came from

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