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ἄδι^κος , ον, (δίκη) of persons,
A.wrongdoing, unrighteous, unjust: “ἄνθρωποι” Hes.Op.260: Comp. -ώτερος ib.272; “δίκαν ἐξ ἀδίκων ἀπαιτῶ” A.Ch.398 (lyr.): Sup. “-ώτατος” S.Tr.1011 (lyr.): ἄ. εἴς τι unjust in a thing, ἔς τινα towards a person, Hdt.2.119; “εἰς χρήματα” X. Cyr.8.8.6; περί τινα ib.27; ἄ. [ἐν τῷ ἀστραγαλίζειν] one who plays unfairly, Pl.Alc.1.110b: c. inf., so unjust as to . . , Ep.Heb.6.10.
2. ἄ. ἵπποι obstinate, unmanageable, X.Cyr.2.2.26; ἄ. γνάθος the hard mouth of a horse, Id.Eq.3.5.
II. of things, unjust, unrighteous, “ἔργα” Hes.Op.334, Hdt.1.5; “ἕργματα” Thgn.380, Sol.13.12; “ἄδικα φρονέειν” Thgn.395; ἄ. λόγος freq. in Ar.Nu.; ἄρχειν χειρῶν ἀ. begin an assault, Antipho 4.2.1, Lys.4.11, cf. X.Cyr.1.5.13, D.47.39; τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τὸ ἄ., τὰ δίκαια καὶ τὰ ἄ. right and wrong, Pl.Grg.460a, etc.; πλοῦτος ἄ. ill-gotten, unrighteous, Isoc.1.38; “ζυγὸν ἄ.” LXX Am.8.5; “νομὴ ἄ. οὐδὲν ἰς χύει” PTeb.286.7 (ii A.D.); ἡ ἄ. . . συναγωγὴ ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικός the unrighteous union, Pl.Tht.150a; ἄ. δίκη vexatious suit, Cratin.19D.
2. of the punishment of wrongdoing, “Ζεὺς νέμων ἄδικα κακοῖς” A.Supp.404 (lyr.), cf. E.Or.647.
III. ἄ. ἡμέρα, i.e. ἄνευ δικῶν, a day on which the courts were shut, Luc.Lex.9: δίκαιος ἄ. who has not appeared in court, Archipp.46.
IV. Adv. “-κως” Sol.13.7, A.Ag.1546; “τοὺς ἀ. θνἥσκοντας” S.El.113 (anap.); εἴτε ὦν δὴ δικαίως εἴτε ἀ. jure an injuria, Hdt.6.137; “δικαίως καὶ ἀ.” Pl. Lg.743b; οὐκ ἀ. not without reason, h.Merc.316, Simon.89.3, Pl.Phd. 72a.
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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