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αἰκ-ία , ἡ, Att. for Ion. ἀεικίη (q.v.),
A.insulting treatment, outrage, A. Pr.179, S.El.515 (lyr.), OC748, etc.
2. torture, Plb.1.80.8, cf. 24.9.13: pl., torments, A.Pr.93, S.El.486 (lyr.), And.1.138, etc.
3. in Prose usu. law-term, assault, “αἰκίας δίκη” Pl.R.425d, 464e; “ἦν ὁ τῆς βλάβης ὑμῖν νόμος πάλαι, ἦν ὁ τῆς αἰ., ἦν ὁ τῆς ὕβρεως” D.21.35, cf. Lys.Fr.44, etc.
4. generally, suffering, Th.7.75. [Prob. misspelt for -εια (which is freq. v.l.); - - - in Poets.]
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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