δύο
dyo
two
Appears 453 times across Plato's dialogues.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
δύο [ῠ], also δύω in Ep., Eleg. and late, SIG 1231 (Nicomedia, iii/ iv A. D.), not in Ion. Inscrr. nor in Trag. (δύο ῥοπάς shd. be read in Hel. 1090), nor in Att. Prose or Inscrr.: Lacon. acc. δύε IG 5(1).1; Thess. fem. δύας ib.9(2).517: gen. and dat. δυοῖν Vict. 1.3, but f.l. in 1.11,91 [used as monos. in OT 640, cf. δώδεκα for δυώδ-]; later Att. also δυεῖν (esp. in fem. gen.) found in codd. of El. 536, cited fr. by (?) Fr. 372, cf. 1.20 (cod. Laur.); Boeot. δουῖν Supp. 2.54; later δυσί, δυσὶν ἡμέραις 8.101 codd., δυσὶν ἡμέρῃσι v.l. in Acut.(Sp. ) 67; δυοῖν ὄμμασι καὶ δυσὶν ἀκοαῖς Pol. 1287b27, cf. 699, SIG 344.26 (Teos, iv B.C.), etc.: early Att. Inscrr. have δυοῖν IG 12.3.10, al., later δυεῖν SIG 2587.286, IG 22.463.78, al., from cent. iii on δυσί ib.1028.27, al.; Ion. gen. δυῶν GDI 5653d9 (Chios), 1.94, 130, etc., dat. δυοῖσι ib. 32,7.104; δυῶν also Dor., Leg.Gort. 1.40, Tab.Heracl. 1.139; δυοῖς Leg.Gort. 7.46.— Used indecl., like ἄμφω, by (who has no gen. or dat. δυοῖν) , τῶν δύο μοιράων Il. 10.253; δύω κανόνεσσι 13.407, etc.; so in and Att., δύο νεῶν 8.82; δύο ζεύγεσι 3.130; δύο νεῶν 3.89; δύο πλέθρων An. 3.4.9; with dual, δύο μναῖν dub. l. Mem. 2.5.2; but not in Trag. and rare in Com., ἔτεσιν δύο 105; δύʼ ἔτεσιν 2.3: not in Att. Inscrr. before the Roman period, IG 3.1443, al.:—Α. two, Il. 1.16, etc.; in , δύο and δύω are sts. joined with plural Nouns, δύο δʼ ἄνδρες 18.498, al.; also in Trag., δύο κριούς Aj. 237 (lyr.); in Att. Prose, δύο τέχνας Grg. 464b; but δυοῖν is rare with plural Nouns, ὀρθοστάταις δυοῖν IG 2.1054.64; ἕνα καὶ δύο one or two, a few, Il. 2.346; δύʼ ἢ τρεῖς Pax 829, cf. HG 3.5.20; εἰς δύο two and two, Cyr. 7.5.17; σὺν δύο two together, Il. 10.224, 4.66; δύο ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν to split the state into two, divide it, Pol. 1310a4.
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