The corpus record

δῐκαστ-ής

dikastes · ὁ

a judge, juror, avenger

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Where it lives

Against Alcibiades 2 9 · 149.75/10k
Against Olympiodorus 45 · 128.28/10k
Against Macartatus 66 · 106.54/10k
Against Philocrates 7 · 105.9/10k
Against Spudias 20 · 103.2/10k
Against Phaenippus 22 · 99.14/10k
Against Lacritus 32 · 89.59/10k
Against Theomnestus 1 13 · 87.25/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 21 · 87.06/10k
Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes 11 · 85.01/10k
Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 17 · 84.37/10k
Trapeziticus 26 · 78.08/10k

Densest 12 of 124 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

δῐκαστ-ής · dikast-ēs — LSJ

a judge

a judge, Hdt. 1.96, 3.14, 31, A. Ch. 120, Eu. 81, etc.

of stars, δ. τῶν ὅλων D.S. 2.31.

3 juror

at Athens and elsewh., juror, S. Aj. 1136, etc.; opp. νομοθέτης, Lys. 14.4, cf. Antipho 1.23, X. Smp. 5.10.

II avenger

δ. αἵματος avenger, E. HF 1150.

In the wild

δικαστὴς · dikastēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1420
δικαστὰς · dikastas Aeschylus, Eumenides 482–484
δικαστῶν · dikastōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 683–684
δικαστῶν · dikastōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 742–743
δικαστὰς · dikastas Aeschylus, Eumenides 81–83
δικαστὴν · dikastēn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 119–120

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Where it came from

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