παραίτιος

A. being in part the cause, ἡ Μοῖρα τούτων π. shared the blame, A. l.c.; τὸ κακὸν ἀγαθοῦ γίγνεται π. E. Fr. 174.3; ἀγαθῶν π. Decr. ap. D. 18.92; later, practically, = αἴτιος, Supp.Epigr. 3.468.4 (Thess., i B. C.), Ph. 2.92, al., Ocell. 4.14; τῶν αἰσχρῶν τὸ θεῖον [οὔκ ἐστι] π. Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.326.

2. in bad sense, accessory to a crime, τῶν δ’ ἐγὼ π. A. Fr. 44.7; π. τοῦ φόνου Paus. 4.3.8; π. τινί τινος Plb. 18.41.3, cf. Michel 56.14, 1015.15 (both Teos, ii B. C.).