Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δεκάκις

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Principal Part: δεκάκις

Etym.: de/ka

Sense

  1. ten-times

Examples

  • ὅσ, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, τρὶσ μὲν ἢ τετράκισ ἱππαρχηκὼσ ἀνδρῶν καλῶν κἀγαθῶν, πλεονάκισ δ’ ἢ δεκάκισ στρατηγὸσ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν κεχειροτονημένοσ οὐκ ἄξιοσ ὤν, τιμώμενοσ καὶ ζηλούμενοσ διὰ τὴν πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ πίστιν ἀπέδοτο καὶ προέδωκε τὸ τῆσ ἡμετέρασ ἡγεμονίασ ἀξίωμα, καὶ εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ κατέστησεν ἑαυτὸν Ἀριστογείτονι, καὶ μισθωτὸν καὶ προδότην ἀντὶ στρατηγοῦ ἐποίησεν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 14:1)
  • "διὸ δὴ καὶ δεκάκισ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τιθέασιν, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ δωδεκάκισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:13)
  • ἐπεὶ παράθεσ αὐτοῖσιν ἰχθῦσ ἢ κρέασ, κἂν μὴ κατεσθίωσι καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ, ἐθέλω κρέμασθαι δεκάκισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 53 2:3)
  • ἐνίκησε δὲ τὴν περίοδον δεκάκισ καὶ ἐδείπνει καθήμενοσ, ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Νέστωρ ἐν τοῖσ θεατρικοῖσ ὑπομνήμασι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 7 3:2)
  • ἀφέστατε δῆλον ὅτι αὐτῷ, καὶ φανερὸν πεποιήκατε ὅτι οὐδ’ ἂν δεκάκισ ἀποθάνῃ, οὐδὲν μᾶλλον κινήσεσθε. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 43:1)

Synonyms

  1. ten-times

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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