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ἔνδι^κ-ος , Arc. ἴνδικος , ον, (δίκη):
I. of things, according to right, just, legitimate, Pi.P.5.103; γόος ἔ. A.Ch. 330 (lyr.); “ὀνείδη” Id.Eu.135; “λέκτρα” IG12(5).675.4 (Syros); “κρίμα” Ep.Rom.3.8: τὸ μὴ 'νδικον, = τὸ ἄδικον, S.OT682 (lyr.); “τὰ πάντων ἐνδικώτατα” Id.OC925; μὴ λέγων γε τοὔνδικον not speaking truth, Id.OT1158.
2. legal, ἔ. ἡμέρα a court-day, Poll.8.25.
b. having a locus standi, μή οἱ ἔστω ἴνδικον μηδέποθι ἀλλ᾽ ἢ . . he shall not have the right to sue, IG5(2).6.33 (Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. Foed.Delph.Pell.2A 16, Pl.Lg.915d, IG22.46c56.
c. = ἔνοχος δίκα, Leg.Gort.3.23, 11.22.
d. ἔ. πόλις a city in which justice is done, Pl.Hp.Ma.292b; in which sales may be publicly registered, Milet.3.140.
II. of persons, upright, just, A.Eu.699, S.Ant.208; “πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσίν” A.Ag.996 (lyr.); “δῆμος ἐνδικώτατος” Id.Fr.196:
c. dat., ἔ. γάμοις favourable to them, Id.Supp.82 (lyr.).
2. possessed of right, τίς μᾶλλον ἐνδικώτερος; who has a better right? Id.Th.673.
III. Adv. -κως right, with justice, fairly, Id.Pr.63, Ch.462 (lyr.), etc.; “ὀρθῶς ἐ. τ᾽ ἐπώνυμος” Id.Th.405: Sup. “-ώτατα” Pl.Ti.85b.
2. justly, naturally, as one has a right to expect, S.OT135, E.Andr.920.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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