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τίσις 1 τίνω

1.payment by way of return or recompense, retribution, vengeance, Hom., etc.; τίσιν δοῦναί τινος to suffer punishment for an act, Lat. poenas dare, Hdt.; κασιγνήτου τίσις for him, Soph.; in pl., Ὀροίτεα τίσιες μετῆλθον (where it may be personified, avengers, like Ἐρίνυες), Hdt.
2.power to repay or requite, both in bad and good sense, Theogn.

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