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Ἑλλα_νοδίκ-αι [ι^], ῶν, οἱ,
A.the chief judges at the Olympic games, Pi. O.3.12 (sg.), Hellanic.113J. (sg.), Paus.5.9.5 sq.; also, at the Nemean games, IG4.587 (Argos); at Epidaurus, ib.946 (iii B.C.).
II. at Sparta, court-martial to try cases arising among the allied troops, X. Lac.13.11.—The Dor. form (Elean Ἑλλανοζίκας Schwyzer 409) is used in Att., but Ἑλληνοδίκαι is found in SIG1073.20, and is v.l. in Hdt.5.22, cf. Hsch.s.v. et s.v. Δίαρχοι.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.22
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.9.5
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 13.11
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