A.counterbalancing, cf. “ἄγω” v1: hence prop. weighing as much, of like value, worth as much as, c. gen., “βοὸς ἄ.” Il.23.885; νῦν δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος we are not—all together—worth one Hector, 8.234, cf. Hdt. 1.32, 7.21; “πάντων Ζεὺς ἄξιον ἦμαρ ἔδωκεν” Il.15.719; so πολλοῦ ἄ. worth much, X.An.4.1.28, Pl.Smp.185b, etc.; “πλείονος ἄ.” Id.Phdr. 235b, etc.; “πλείστου ἄ.” Th.2.65, Pl.Grg.464d, etc.; παντός, τοῦ παντὸς ἄ., E.Fr.275, Pl.Sph.216c; παντὸς ἄ., c. inf., Ar.Av.797; λόγου ἄ., = ἀξιόλογος, Hdt.1.133, Th.1.73, etc.; σπουδῆς, μνήμης ἄ., Plu.2.35a,172e:—opp. to these are “οὐδενὸς ἄ.” Thgn.456; “ἢ παντὸς ἢ τὸ παράπαν οὐδενός” Pl.Phlb.64d; “ὀλίγου” Id.Grg.497b, etc.; “σμικροῦ” Id.R.504d, etc.; “βραχέος” Id.Lg.692c; μείονος, ἐλάττονος ἄ., X. Vect.4.50, Cyr.2.2.14; “πολλαπλασίου τιμήματος ἄ. κτήσεις” Arist.Pol.1306b12; also εἰς ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς ἄ. worth up to a sum of . ., D.27.10.
2. c. dat. pers., σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς 'tis worth a return to thee, i.e. will bring thee a return, Od.1.318; “πολέος δέ οἱ ἄξιος ἔσται” Il.23.562; “βασιλεῖ ἂν πολλοῦ ἄξιοι γένοιντο” X.An.2.1.14.
3. abs., worthy, goodly, “ἄξια δῶρα” Il.9.261; ἄ. ὦνος a goodly price, Od.15.429; ὅθεν κέ τοι ἄξιον ἄλφοι it would bring thee a good price, 20.383; “φέροντες ὅ τι ἕκαστος ἄξιον εἶχε” X.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 πρίασθαι” Lys.22.18; “ὡς ἄ. γεγόνασιν οἱ πυροὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ” Thphr.Char.3.3, cf. X.Vect.4.6.
4. deserved, meet, due, “δίκη” S.El.298, X.Oec.12.19; “χάρις” Id.HG1.6.11; ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων fit suffering for fit deeds, A.Ag.1527, cf. E.Ion735.
7. αἰδοῦς ἀξίαν . . τὴν προθυμίαν μᾶλλον ἢ 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᾽ ἀξίων” Id.Eu.435; “ἀξίων γεννητόρων ἤθη φυλάσσεις” E. Ion735.
2. worthy of, deserving, mostly c. gen. rei, ἄξιον φυγῆς, ἄξια στεναγμάτων, γέλωτος, Id.Med.1124, Or.1326, Heracl.507; “ἐγκωμίων τί ἀξιώτερον ἤ . .;” X.Ages.10.3: c. gen. pers., “ποιεῖν ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων” Th.2.71; “ἄξιον τοῦ πατρός” Isoc.9.80; “ἄξια τοῦ Μαραθῶνος διανοεῖσθαι” Plu.Cim.5.
b. c. gen. rei et dat. pers., ἡμῖν δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἄξιος τιμῆς is worthy of honour at our hands, E.Hec.309; “πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἄ. ὑμῖν” Ar.Ach.633; “ἄ. πλείστου Λακεδαιμονίοις” Th. 4.81; “θανάτου τῇ πόλει” X.Mem.1.1.1, cf. 1.2.62; “εἰμὶ δ᾽ οὐ τούτων ὑμῖν ἄ.” D.21.217; “χάριτος ἄ. τῇ πόλει” Antipho 6.10; later “τιμῆς ἄ. παρὰ πάντων” Luc.Tox.3.
3. c. inf., Προθοήνορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι ἄ. worthy to be killed instead of him, Il.14.472, cf. Th.1.76; “τίεσθαι δ᾽ ἀξιώτατος” A.Ag.531; “ἄ. θρήνων τυχεῖν” S.Aj.924; ἄξιοι δουλεύειν only fit to be slaves, Arist.Pol.1254b36; also “ἄ. σέβειν” E.Heracl.315 (Elmsl.).
b. ἄξιός εἰμι, like δίκαιός εἰμι, I deserve to . ., “ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖν” Ar.Ec.324; “ἄξιός εἰμι ἀπολαῦσαι” X.Cyr.5.4.19: abs., the inf. being supplied, authorized to act, And.1.132; ἄ. γάρ, emphatically, Pl.Tht.143e.
c. later “ἄ. ἵνα” Ev.Jo.1.27.
4. ἄξιόν [ἐστι] 'tis meet, fit, due, “ἄξιον εἶναι τρεῖς ἑνὸς ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι” Il.13.446; “ἄ. μνήμην ἔχειν” Hdt.1.14: later c. fut. inf., “ἄ. διαπορήσειν” Did.in D.9.15.
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 ἐπολολύξαι” Id.Eq.616; freq. in X. as ὡς οὐκ ἄξιον εἴη βασιλεῖ ἀφεῖναι κτλ. that it was not meet for him . ., An.2.3.25.