reprisal

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).