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δι^κα_νικός , ή, όν,
I. of persons, skilled in pleading, Pl.Grg.512b, Tht.201a, X.Mem.1.2.48, etc.: in bad sense, lawyer-like, pettifogging, “σμικρὸς τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ δ.” Pl.Tht.175d.
II. belonging to trials, judicial, “λόγοι” Isoc.13.20; ῥημάτιον δ. law-term, Ar.Pax534; ἡ-κή (sc. τέχνη) forensic oratory, Pl.R.405a, Arist.Rh.1371a7; μετὰ δικανικήν after serving as advocate, Epigr.Gr.919; “τὸ δ.” S.E.M.2.89; “τὰ δικανικά” Arist.Rh.1354b23.
2. in bad sense, savouring of the law-courts, “φορτικὰ μὲν καὶ δ.” Pl.Ap.32a; “ὡς μακρὸν τὸ ἐνύπνιον καὶ δ.” Luc.Somn.17. Adv. “-κῶς” Charito 5.4.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 534
    • Isocrates, Against the Sophists, 20
    • Plato, Republic, 405a
    • Plato, Apology, 32a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 201a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 175d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 512b
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.2.48
    • Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, 17
    • Chariton, De Chaerea et Callirhoe, 5.4
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