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ἀμοιβ-ή , ἡ, (ἀμείβω)
A.requital, recompense, Hom. only in Od.; “σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς” Od.1.318; “ἄλλοισι δίδου χαρίεσσαν ἀ. . . ἑκατόμβης” 3.58; “εὖ ἔρδοντι κακὴν ἀπέδωκας ἀ.” Thgn.1263, cf. E.Or.467; “γλυκεῖαν μόχθων ἀ.” Pi.N.5.48; ἀγαναῖς ἀ. τινὰ τίνεσθαι to requite him by like return, Id.P.2.24; “χαρίεσσα ἀμοιϝά” GDI3119c（Corinth); “οἵας ἀ. ἐξ Ἰάσονος κυρεῖ” E.Med.23; “ἀμοιβαὶ τῶν θυσιῶν” Pl.Smp.202e; retribution, “ἔργων ἀντ᾽ ἀδίκων χαλεπὴν ἐπέθηκεν ἀ.” Hes.Op.334: pl., “αἰωνίαις ἀ. βασανισθησόμενοι” Phld.D.1.19.
2. repayment, compensation, “τείσουσι βοῶν ἐπιεικέ᾽ ἀ.” Od.12.382.
3. that which is given in exchange, “τῷ σκυτοτόμῳ ἀντὶ τῶν ὑποδημάτων ἀ. γίνεται κατ᾽ ἀξίαν” Arist.EN1163b35; “τὴν ἀ. ποιητέον κατὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν” 1164b1; “δέκα μνῶν ἀ.” Plu.Lyc.9.
4. answer, “ἀσχήμων ἐν τῇ ἀ.” Hdt.7.160.
II. change, exchange, “τὰς ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι” Str.11.4.4; of money, Plu.Luc.2.
III. change, alternation, “κακῶν” E.El.1147; “ἑορτῶν” Pl.Lg.653d.
2. transformation, D.L.9.8.
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 (15):
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1164b.1
    • Euripides, Electra, 1147
    • Euripides, Medea, 23
    • Euripides, Orestes, 467
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.160
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 334
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.382
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.318
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.58
    • Plato, Laws, 653d
    • Plato, Symposium, 202e
    • Strabo, Geography, 11.4.4
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 9.8
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 2
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 9
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