ἄξιος
Etym. ἄγω IV, and so properly "weighing as much".
I. "weighing as much, of like value, worth as much as", c. gen., Il., Hdt.; οὐδ᾽ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος we are not "worth" one Hector, Il.; πάντων ἄξιον ἦμαρ, Lat. instar omnium, id=Il.; πολλοῦ ἄξιος "worth" much, Xen.; πλείστου ἄξιον, "quantivis pretii", Thuc.; so, παντός, τοῦ παντὸς ἄξιον Plat.; λόγου ἄξιος, ῀ ἀξιόλογος, Hdt., etc.:—opp. to these are οὐδενὸς ἄξ. Theogn.; ὀλίγου, σμικροῦ ἄξ. Plat., etc.
2. c. dat. pers., σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς 'tis "worth" a return to thee, i. e. will bring thee a return, Od.; πολλοῦ or πλείστου ἄξιον εἶναί τινι Xen., etc.
3. absol. "worthy, goodly", of persons and things, Od., etc.; in attic it sometimes has an opposite sense, "of a proper value, cheap", Ar.
b. of things, "deserved, meet, due", δίκη Soph.; χάρις Xen.
4. "sufficient for", c. gen., Dem.
II. "worthy of, deserving, meet for", c. gen. rei, φυγῆς, γέλωτος Eur.; c. gen. pers., ποιεῖν ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων Thuc.:—c. gen. rei et dat. pers., ἡμῖν δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἄξιος τιμῆς "is worthy of" honour "at" our hands, Eur.; πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἄξιος ὑμῖν Ar.
2. c. inf., πεφάσθαι ἄξιος "worthy to" be killed, Il.; ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖν I "deserve" a flogging, Ar.
3. ἄξιόν [ἐστι] 'tis "meet, fit, due", Il., Hdt.; c. dat. pers. et inf., τῆι πόλει ἄξιον ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν ἄνδρα 'tis "meet" for the city, "is" her "duty", to arrest the man, Ar.:—the inf. is sometimes omitted, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι 'tis "meet" in the eyes of Hellas [so to do], id=Ar.
III. adv. ἀξίως, c. gen., "worthily of", Hdt.:—absol., Soph.