Δίκη

Where it lives

• Libation Bearers 7 · 13.02/10k
• Seven Against Thebes 5 · 9.93/10k
• Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
• Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
• Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
• Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
• Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
• Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
• Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
• Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
• Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
• Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Δίκας · Dikas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 381–384
• Δίκην · Dikēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1432–1436
• Δίκα · Dika Aeschylus, Agamemnon 772–780
• Δίκα · Dika Aeschylus, Agamemnon 250–251
• Δίκας · Dikas Aeschylus, Eumenides 538–539
• Δίκαν · Dikan Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 948

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Δίκη (scan pp. 381-382; entry #1716). Root candidates: *deik-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Δίκη (scan p. 297; entry #2034).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Δίκη (scan pp. 425-426; entry #1567).

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