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δι^κάζω , fut.
A.“δικάσω” Il.23.579, Ar.Eq.1089, V.689, 801, Pl.Criti. 120a, etc.; Ion. “δικῶ” Hdt.1.97; inf. δικᾶν GDIiv p.880 (Chios), SIG 134b23 (Milet.): aor. ἐδίκασα, Ep. δίκασα, δίκασσα, Od.11.547, Il.23.574: pf. “δεδίκακα” Heraclid.Cum.1:—Med. (v. infr. 11), fut. “-άσομαι” Hdt.1.96, D.37.37: aor. “ἐδικασάμην” Lys.12.4, D.38.17, etc.: plpf. ἐδεδίκαστο (v. infr. 11):—Pass., fut. “δικασθήσομαι” D.H.5.61, “δεδικάσομαι” Luc.Bis Acc.14: aor. “ἐδικάσθην” Th.1.28, Pl.Cri.50b: pf. “δεδίκασμαι” Lys.21.18: plpf. “ἐδεδίκαστο” D.33.27: (δίκη):—judge, sit in judgement, Il.23.579, Hdt.1.14, Antipho 5.90, etc.; sit as a juror, D.21.75; “δ. καὶ ἐκκλησιάζειν” Lys.26.2, cf. Arist.Pol.1293a9, etc.
2. c. acc. rei, give judgement on, decide, determine, Il.1.542; “δ. δίκην” Hes.Op.39, etc.; “ἀλιτρά” Pi.O.2.65; “πρᾶγμα” A.Eu. 471, cf. 601; “τἀμπλακήματα” Id.Supp.230; δ. δίκην ἄδικον give an unjust judgement, Hdt.5.25; “δ. ἐμπορικὰς δίκας” D.35.46; less freq., “γραφὰς δ.” Lycurg.7; “εὐθύνας” D.19.132; “ἀγῶνα” Din.1.46: c. acc. cogn., δίκας δ. adjudge a penalty, Hdt.6.139; δ. φυγήν τινι decree it as his punishment, A.Ag.1412; δ. φόνον ματέρος ordain her slaughter, E.Or.164 (lyr.): c. gen., δικάζειν τοὺς βασιλέας αἰτιῶν φόνου Lex Draconis ap.IG12.115.11; δ. τοῦ ἐγκλήματος (sc. δίκην) X.Cyr.1.2.7:—Pass., “δίκαι δικασθεῖσαι” Pl.Cri.50b, cf. Lys.17.3; ὁποτέρων ἂν δικασθῇ εἶναι τὴν ἀποικίαν it may be decided . . , Th.1.28.
b. pass judgement on, condemn, “γάμον ἄγαμον” S.OT1214 (lyr.).
3. φόνον δ. plead in a case of murder, E.Or.580: abs., plead, D.C.69.18.
4. c. dat. pers., decide between persons, judge their cause, “Τρωσί τε καὶ Δαναοῖσι δικαζέτω ὡς ἐπιεικές” Il.8.431; “ἐς μέσον ἀμφοτέροισι δικάσσατε” 23.574, cf. Hdt.1.97; “τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι δίκας δ.” Id.3.31; ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὸ μέγαθος τοῦ ἀδικήματος passed judgement on each, Id.2.137.
5. c. inf., “δικαξάτω λαγάσαι” Leg.Gort.1.5; “ἐδίκασαν δέκα ἀνταπόλλυσθαι” Hdt.3.14; δ. ὡς . . Id.1.84.
6. Pass., “αἰσχρὰς δίκας δ.” to have actions brought against one, Lys.21.18.
II. Med., of the party, plead one's cause, go to law, Od.11.545, 12.440, Hdt.1.96, Th.1.77; “πρὸς τοὺς ἀστυνόμους” Pl.Lg.845e; δίκην δικάζεσθαί τινι go to law with one, Lys.12.4, D.55.31; simply, “δ. τινί” Pl.Euthphr.4e; “πρός τινας” Th. 3.44; prop. of a private suit, opp. a public prosecution, D.21.26: with gen. added, “δ. τινὶ κακηγορίας” Lys.10.12; “κλοπῆς” D.22.27, etc.; “ἐδεδίκαστο ἄν μοι τῆς ἐγγύης” Id.33.27; δ. τινὶ περί τινος ib.26.
2. “τὸ δ.” forensic speaking, Arist.Rh.1354b26, cf. Antipho2.2.12.
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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