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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [τῐ], εως, ἡ, ([[τίνω]]>; cf. Skt. apacitis [[vengeance]]) [[payment by way of return]] or [[payment by way of recompense]], [[retribution]], [[vengeance]], Od.2.76, Il. 22.19, Hes.''Th.''210, Alcm.23.36, etc.; <b class="b3">ἐκ γὰρ Ὀρέσταο τ. ἔσσεται Ἀτρεΐδαο</b> [[retribution for]] his murder, Od.1.40; freq. in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]], <b class="b3">τίσιν δοῦναί τινος</b> suffer [[punishment for]] an act, 8.76; τίσιν τινὶ ἐκτεῖσαι 6.84; τ. ἥξει 2.152, cf. S.''OC''228 (anap.); <b class="b3">τιμωρίη τε καὶ τ.</b> [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.8.ά; <b class="b3">πρὸς κασιγνήτου τίσιν</b> [[for]] him, S.''OC''1329; <b class="b3">τῶν τοιούτων τ.</b> [[retribution for]] such things, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''870d: pl., <b class="b3">Ὀροίτεα Πολυκράτεος τίσιες μετῆλθον</b> (where it may be personified, [[avengers]] of P., like [[Ἐρινύες]]) [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.126, 128.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[power to repay]] or [[power to requite]], both in bad and good sense, φίλων Thgn.337, cf. 345.