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δέκα

deka

ten

Appears 48 times across Plato's dialogues.

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δέκα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl., A. ten, Il. 2.372, Od. 9.160, etc.; οἱ δ. the Ten, Isoc. 18.6; ἡ τῶν δ. τυραννίς Arist. Ath. 41.2; also οἱ δ. the Attic Orators, Philostr. VS 2.1.14; τὰ δέκα [ἔτη] ἀφʼ ἥβης those who are ten years past 20 (the age of military service), X. HG 3.4.23; δ. ἄνδρες, = Lat. decemviri, App. Hann. 56: compds. (not in early writers, but usu. in Hellenistic Gr.) δεκᾰ-είς, Tab.Heracl. 2.34, Plu. Num. 3: δεκαδύο, PSI 5.509.10 (iii B.C.), IG 22.1013.31 (ii/i B.C.), Plu. Cat.Mi. 44, Act.Ap. 19.7: δεκατρεῖς, D. 47.77,81, BGU 644.5 (i A.D.): δεκατέσσαρες, α, Plb. 1.36.11, etc.; Delph. δεκατέτορες SIG 241A 2 (iv B.C.): δεκαπέντε, PRev.Laws 12.17 (iii B.C., prob.), D.S. 2.13 codd.; Thess. δεκαπέμπε IG 9(2).553.13 (Larisa, i B.C.): δεκαέξ, Tab.Heracl. 2.40,PSI 4.379.6 (iii B.C.), LXXGe. 46.18, Str. 2.5.42:δεκαεπτά, PSI 5.509.13 (iii B.C.), v.l. in D.S. 12.36, J. BJ 5.11.4, S.E. M. 1.114, etc.: δεκαοκτώ, IG 2.1054.47, Cleonid. Harm. 2, Ev.Luc. 13.11: δεκαεννέα, PSI 4.396.12 (iii B.C.), D.S. 12.71, Plu. 2.932b:—hence δεκα-έννατος,nineteenth, ἡμέρα Lyd. Ost. 18.
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