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ἄξιος , ία, ιον ος, ον Nonn.D.8.314), for Α῎γ-τιος,
3. abs., worthy, goodly,ἄξια δῶραIl.9.261; . ὦνος a goodly price, Od.15.429; ὅθεν κέ τοι ἄξιον ἄλφοι it would bring thee a good price, 20.383; “φέροντες τι ἕκαστος ἄξιον εἶχεX.Cyr.3.3.2.
b. in Att. in an exactly opposite sense, 'good value for the money', i.e. cheap, Ar.Eq.672,895: Comp., ib.645; “ὡς ἀξιώτατον πρίασθαιLys.22.18; “ὡς . γεγόνασιν οἱ πυροὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷThphr.Char.3.3, cf. X.Vect.4.6.
4. deserved, meet, due,δίκηS.El.298, X.Oec.12.19; “χάριςId.HG1.6.11; ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων fit suffering for fit deeds, A.Ag.1527, cf. E.Ion735.
5. of persons, οἱ ἑωυτοῦ ἄξιοι those of one's own rank, his peers, Hdt.1.107.
6. sufficient for, c. gen., “. τοῦ πολέμου τὰ χρήματαD.14.27.
7. αἰδοῦς ἀξίαν . . τὴν προθυμίαν μᾶλλον θράσους more like modesty than rashness, Arist.Cael.291b25.
II. after Hom., in moral relation, worthy, estimable, of persons and things, Hdt.7.224, etc.; οὐδὲν ἀξία nothing worth, A.Ch. 445; “ἀξίαν κἀπ᾽ ἀξίωνId.Eu.435; “ἀξίων γεννητόρων ἤθη φυλάσσειςE. Ion735.
b. ἄξιός εἰμι, like δίκαιός εἰμι, I deserve to . ., “ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖνAr.Ec.324; “ἄξιός εἰμι ἀπολαῦσαιX.Cyr.5.4.19: abs., the inf. being supplied, authorized to act, And.1.132; . γάρ, emphatically, Pl.Tht.143e.
c. later “. ἵναEv.Jo.1.27.
b. c. dat. pers. et inf., τῇ πόλει γὰρ ἄξιον ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν α̈νο̂ρα 'tis meet for the city, is worth her while . ., Ar.Ach.205; “τί σοι ζῆν ἄξιον;Id.Nu.1074, cf. Av.548; “ἄξιόν γε πᾶσιν ἐπολολύξαιId.Eq.616; freq. in X. as ὡς οὐκ ἄξιον εἴη βασιλεῖ ἀφεῖναι κτλ. that it was not meet for him . ., An.2.3.25.
c. the inf. is sts. omitted, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι 'tis meet in the eyes of Hellas [so to do], Ar.Ach.8; and sts. the dat., ἄξιόν ἐστι operae pretium est, it is worth while,ἐνθυμηθῆναιD.1.21; “γαμεῖν οὐκ ἄξιονE.Alc.628.
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