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ἐπάξι^-ος ,
A.a, ον, worthy, deserving of . ., “πάντων” Pi.N.7.89; “τῆς δίκης ἐπάξια” A.Eu.272 (lyr.), cf. Ch.95; “θαυμάτων ἐπάξια” E.Ba.716; “σπουδῆς οὐ . . πολλῆς τινος ἐ.” Pl. Sph.218e: c. inf., ἐ. [εἶ] κατοικτίσαι deserving of pity, S.OC461: abs., ἐ. φύσει καὶ τροφῇ worthy, qualified by birth and breeding, Pl. Lg.961b.
2. deserved, “στεφάνωμα” Pi.I.4(3).44; worthy, meet, “ἄλγος” A.Th.865 (lyr.); “γάμοι” S.El.971, etc.; κυρεῖν τῶν ἐπαξίων meet with one's deserts, A.Pr.70. Adv. “-ίως” S.OT133, Iamb.Myst.3.20.
3. worth mentioning, notable, Hdt.2.79,7.96 (sed v. ἀπαξοί); worth while to do a thing, Hp.Art.72.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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