recrimination
From LSJ
νεκρὸν ἐάν ποτ' ἴδηις καὶ μνήματα κωφὰ παράγηις κοινὸν ἔσοπτρον ὁρᾶις· ὁ θανὼν οὕτως προσεδόκα → whenever you see a body dead, or pass by silent tombs, you look into the mirror of all men's destiny: the dead man expected nothing else | if you ever see a corpse or walk by quiet graves, that's when you look into the mirror we all share: the dead expected this
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. ὄνειδος, τό, Ar. and P. λοιδορία, ἡ; see abuse.
words of recrimination hurtled to and fro: V. λόγοι… ἐρρόθουν κακοί (Sophocles, Antigone 259).
the envoys of each returned home without recrimination: P. οἱ πρέσβεις ἑκατέρων ἀπῆλθον ἐπ' οἴκου ἀνεπικλήτως (Thuc. 1, 92).
