δίκη
Gram. n di^k h_hs fem
I. "custom, usage", αὕτη δίκη ἐστὶ βροτῶν this is the "custom" of mortals, Od.; ἡ γὰρ δίκη ἐστι γερόντων id=Od.:—acc. δίκην as adv., "after the manner of", c. gen., δίκην ὕδατος Aesch., Plat.
II. "right as dependent on custom, law, right", Hom., etc.
2. δίκη ἐστι, like δίκαιόν ἐστι, Aesch.: —δίκῃ "duly, rightly", Il., Trag.; κατὰ δίκην Hdt.; μετὰ δίκης Plat.; πρὸς δίκης Soph.
III. "a judgment", δίκην εἰπεῖν to give "judgment", Il.: pl. "righteous judgments", Hom.
IV. after Hom., "a lawsuit", properly, "a private suit or action", opp. to γραφή (a public suit or indictment), Plat., etc.
2. "the trial" of the case, πρὸ δίκης Thuc.
3. "the penalty awarded by the judge", δίκην τίνειν, ἐκτίνειν Hdt., Soph.; δίκην or δίκας διδόναι to "make amends", suffer "punishment", Lat. poenas dare, Hdt., attic; δίκας δοῦναι, also, to submit to "trial", Thuc.: —δίκας λαμβάνειν is sometimes = δ. διδόναι, Lat. dare poenas, Hdt., Dem.; but also like Lat. sumere poenas, to inflict "punishment", take "vengeance", λαβεῖν δίκην παρά τινος id=Dem.:—also, δίκας or δίκην ὑπέχειν to stand "trial", Hdt., Soph.; δίκην παρέχειν Eur.: —δίκην ὀφλεῖν ὑπό τινος to incur "penalty", Plat.; δίκην φεύγειν to be the defendant in "the trial" (opp. to διώκειν to prosecute), Dem.: —δίκας αἰτέειν to demand "satisfaction", τινός for a thing, Hdt.; δίκην τίσασθαι, v. τίνω II: —δίκας διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν παρ᾽ ἀλλήλων "to have their causes tried", of subject-states whose causes were tried in the courts of the ruling state, id=Hdt.