αἴτιος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[αἰτέω]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[blame]], [[blameworthy]], [[culpable]], Il., etc.: comp., αἰτιώτερος [[more]] [[culpable]], Thuc.; Sup., τοὺς αἰτιωτάτους the [[most]] [[guilty]], Hdt.; τινος for a [[thing]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> as Subst., [[αἴτιος]], ὁ, the [[accused]], [[culprit]], Lat. [[reus]], Aesch., etc.; οἱ αἴτιοι τοῦ πατρός they who [[have]] sinned [[against]] my [[father]], Aesch.:—c. gen. rei, οἱ αἴτ. τοῦ φόνου those [[guilty]] of [[murder]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[being]] the [[cause]], [[responsible]] for, c. gen. rei, Hdt., etc.; c. inf., Soph.: Sup., αἰτιώτατος ναυμαχῆσαι [[mainly]] [[instrumental]] in causing the seafight, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> αἴτιον, τό, a [[cause]], Plat., etc.