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|mdlsjtxt=[[αἰτέω]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[charge]], [[accusation]], Lat. [[crimen]], and then the [[guilt]] or [[fault]] [[implied]] in [[such]] [[accusation]], Pind., Hdt.:—Phrases: αἰτίαν ἔχειν to be [[accused]], τινός of a [[thing]], Pind., etc.;—[[reversely]], [[αἰτία]] [[ἔχει]] με Pind.; ἐν αἰτίαι [[εἶναι]] or γίγνεσθαι Xen., etc.; αἰτίαν ὑπέχειν to lie under a [[charge]], Plat.; αἰτίαν φέρεσθαι Thuc.; αἰτίαις ἐνέχεσθαι Plat.:—opp. to these are ἐν αἰτίαι ἔχειν or δι' αἰτίας to [[hold]] one [[guilty]], [[accuse]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.; ἐν αἰτίαι βάλλειν Soph.; αἰτίαν νέμειν τινί Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[good]] [[sense]], εἰ εὖ πράξαιμεν, [[αἰτία]] θεοῦ the [[credit]] is his, Aesch.; οἳ ἔχουσι ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν who [[have]] [[this]] as [[their]] [[characteristic]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[expostulation]], μὴ ἐπ' ἔχθραι τὸ [[πλέον]] ἢ αἰτίαι Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[cause]], Lat. [[causa]], Plat., etc.; dat. αἰτίαι, like Lat. [[causa]], for the [[sake]] of, κοινοῦ ἀγαθοῦ Thuc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> an [[occasion]], [[opportunity]], αἰτίαν παρέχειν Luc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> the [[head]] under [[which]] a [[thing]] [[comes]], Dem.

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