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ἐπιτίμ-ιον , τό, mostly in pl., ἐπιτίμια, τά,
A.value, price, or estimate of a thing, i.e.,
1. the honours paid to a person, “ἔστ᾽ Ὀρέστου ταῦτα τἀπ.” S.El.915 (nisi leg. τἀπιτύμβια).
2. assessment of damages, penalty or penalties, ἐ. διδόναι τινί inflict.., Hdt.4.80, cf. E.Hec.1086, etc.; τῶνδε τἀπ. for these things, A.Pers.823 ; “τοῖς ἐ. ἔνοχοι τοῦ φόνου” Antipho 4.1.4 ; “τὰ ἐκ τῶν νόμων ἐ.” Lycurg. 4 ; ἐ. δυσσεβείας the wages of ungodliness, S. El.1382, cf. X.Mem.3.12.3 ; “κρίσεις..μεγάλ᾽ ἔχουσαι τἀπιτίμια” D.18.14 : in sg., τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν exact the penalty, A.Th.1026 ; “ἐ. ἔπεστί τινι” Is.3.47 ; “θάνατον ἔταξε τὸ ἐ.” Arist.Oec.1349b30; “ἐ. ὁρίζειν τινί” IG22.1104 ; “τριπλάσια τὰ ἐ. ἀποτεισάτω” PHal.1.208 (iii B.C.), cf. Foed.Delph. Pell.2A21.
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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