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ἐκδι^κ-έω ,
A.avenge, punish, “φόνον” Ctes.Fr.37; “παρακοήν” 2 Ep.Cor.10.6; “τινάς” PGen.47.17 (iv A.D.); exact vengeance for, “τὰ αἵματα τῶν δούλων” LXX 2 Ki.4.8; “τὸ αἷμα τὸ ἀναίτιον” SIG1181.12 (Jewish, circ. ii/i B.C.).
2. decide a case, δίκην, ἀγῶνα, Ph.2.432, POxy.1020.6 (ii A. D.).
II. avenge or vindicate a person, by taking up his cause, Apollod.2.5.11, PAmh.2.134.10 (ii A.D.), Plu.Comp.Ag.Gracch. 5; “ἑαυτούς” Ep.Rom.12.19, etc.; ἐ. τινὰ ἀπό τινος avenge one on another, Ev.Luc.18.3: c.dat., Sch.Ar.Pl.627:—Pass., LXX Ps.36 (37).28.
2. act as “ἔκδικος” 11.3, AJA18.325 (Sardes, i B. C.), cf. CIG2824 (Aphrodisias), BCH23.182 (Pisidia).
III. claim, CIG 3488 (Thyatira), Inscr.Perg.245; “σιτία καὶ ποτά” Hierocl.in CA8p.431M.
IV. ἐ. τισί make retribution for them, Aesop.279b.
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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