Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓ξῐόω • ‎(axióō) (Attic, Ionic)

1. to think or deem worthy
   1. (transitive) to think one worthy, either in a good or bad sense [+accusative = someone], [+genitive = of something]
      • Euripides, Medea 962
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.7
      • Herodotus, Histories 3.145
      • Plato, Apology 38.A
      • Herodotus, Histories 9.111
      • Euripides, Hecuba 366
      • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 122.23
      • Plato, Phaedo 103.E
      1. (transitive) to esteem, honor
         • Sophocles, Ajax 1114
         • Euripides, Herakles' Children 918
         • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 903
         • Euripides, Orestes 1210
      2. (intransitive) to value at a certain price
         • Plato, Laws 917.D
   2. (transitive) to think [+accusative = someone] worthy [+infinitive = to do or be]
      • Euripides, Alcestis 572
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 182
      • Pherecrates, Good-For-Nothings 7
      • Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.73
      • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 240
      • Plato, Theaetetus 161.D
      1. (transitive) to think fit, expect, require, demand that; compare Latin postulō
         • Herodotus, Histories 2.162
         • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 118.20
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89
         • Andocides, Collected Works 18.36
   3. (intransitive) to think one has a right [+infinitive = to do]
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.42
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.15
      • Lysias, Collected Works 164.32
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.86
      1. (intransitive) to think fit, expect, consent, resolve, deign, dare [+infinitive = to do]
         • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 944
         • Aeschylus, The Persians 335
         • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1661
         • Plato, Hippias Minor 364.D
         • Demosthenes 547.9

           οἶμαι πάντας...φέρειν ἀξιοῦν

         • Herodotus, Histories 2.20
         • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 215
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.102
         • Xenophon, Oeconomicus 21.4
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.66
         • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 370
         • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 425
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.199
         • Herodotus, Histories 7.!6
      2. (transitive) to think, deem, hold
         • Herodotus, Histories 6.87
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.54
   4. (intransitive, transitive) to make a claim
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.58
      • Aristotle, Politics 3.17.6
      • Polybius, Histories 39.1.7
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.11
      1. to hold an opinion
         • Demosthenes 312.6

           ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὑτωσὶ περὶ τῆς τύχης ἀξιῶ

         • Demosthenes 460.28

           ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀξιῶ

      2. (philosophy) to lay down, hold, maintain
         • Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.17.5
         • Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.24.2
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.43

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀξίωμα ‎(axíōma)
  • ἀξιωματικός ‎(axiōmatikós)
• ἀξίωσις ‎(axíōsis)
• ἀξιωτέον ‎(axiōtéon)

References

• ἀξιόω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀξιόω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀξιόω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G515”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979