plea
From LSJ
χαῖρ', ὦ μέγ' ἀχρειόγελως ὅμιλε, ταῖς ἐπίβδαις, τῆς ἡμετέρας σοφίας κριτὴς ἄριστε πάντων → all hail, throng that laughs untimely on the day after the festival, best of all judges of our poetic skill
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
excuse: P. and V. πρόφασις, ἡ, λόγος, ὁ, σκῆψις, ἡ.
plea of justice: P. δικαίωμα, τό, δικαίωσις, ἡ, P. and V. δίκαιον, τό, or pl.
what plea shall quench a mother's tears? V. μητρός… τε πηγὴν τίς κατασβέσει δίκη; (Aesch., Seven Against Thebes 584).
on just grounds I urge this plea: V. τῷ μὲν δικαίῳ τόνδ' ἁμιλλῶμαι λόγον (Euripides, Hecuba 271).
