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ἐπιείκεια , ἡ,
A.reasonableness, “ἔχει τινὰ οὗτος ὁ λόγος ἐπιείκειαν” Hp. Fract.31.
2.. equity, opp. strict law, Arist.Top.141a16, etc.; κατ᾽ ἐπιείκειαν, opp. κατὰ τοὺς ὅρκους, Isoc.18.34; ἄκαμπτον εἰς ἐ. Plu.Cat.Mi.4.
3.. of persons, reasonableness, fairness, Th.3.40, 48, 5.86, Pl.Lg.735a, etc.; “ἐ. καὶ πρᾳότης” Plu.Per.39, cf.2 Ep.Cor.10.1; also, goodness, virtuousness, Lys.16.11, D.21.207, Arist.EN1175b24: pl., joined with χάριτες, Isoc.4.63, cf. 15.149.
II.. personified, Clemency, Plu.Caes.57.
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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