reprisal
From LSJ
μή μοι θεοὺς καλοῦσα βουλεύου κακῶς· πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ, γυνὴ Σωτῆρος· ὦδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος → When you invoke the gods, do not be ill-advised. For Obedience is the mother of Success, wife of Salvation—as the saying goes.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
vengeance: P. and V. τιμωρία, ἡ, τίσις, ἡ, V. ποινή, ἡ, or pl. (rare P.), ἄποινα, τά (rare P.), ἀντίποινα, τά.
right of public reprisal (by seizing goods): P. σῦλαι, αἱ, σῦλα, τά (see Dem. 931).
make reprisals, v.: P. and V. ἀμύνεσθαι.
they gave the Lacedaemonians a more plausible pretext for making reprisals on the Athenians: P. τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις εὐπροφάσιστον μᾶλλον τὴν αἰτίαν εἰς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι ἐποίησαν (Thuc. 6, 105).
