τεσσαράκοντα

τεσσαράκοντα [ρᾰ], Att. τεττᾰράκοντα IG 22.334.23; Ion. τεσσεράκοντα (q.v.); Sicilian Ionic τετράϟοντα Supp.Epigr. 4.64 (vi B.C.); Dor. τετρώκοντα Tab.Heracl. 1.20, al., SIG 241.67 (Delph., iv B.C.), IG 5(2).357.16 (Stymphalus, iii B.C.), 9(1).880.15 (Corc.), cf. τετρωκοντάλιτρος and v. τεσσαρακοστός; once Dor. τεταράκοντα IG 4.823.63 (Troezen); Boeot. πετταράκοντα (q.v.): οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.:—A. forty, Il. 2.524, etc. II. οἱ τ. the Forty, a body of justices who went round the Attic demes to hear all causes up to ten drachmae, Isoc. 15.237; also cases of assault, D. 37.33: changed from Thirty to Forty after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, Arist. Ath. 53.1.