Sense

1. very long ago

Examples

• κατάκειμαι, ὡς ὁρᾶτε, δεκάπαλαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 42 3:3)
• "ὁ βοῦς ὁ χαλκοῦς ἦν ἂν ἑφθὸς δεκάπαλαι, ὁ δ ἴσως γαλαθηνὸν τέθυκε τὸν χοῖρον λαβών, καὶ Ἀνακρέων δέ φησιν οἱά῀ τε νεβρὸν νεοθηλέα γαλαθηνόν, ὅς τ ἐν ὕλῃ κεροέσσης ἀπολειφθεὶς ἀπὸ μητρὸς ἐπτοήθη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 54 1:11)
• ἐγὼ δὲ δεκάπαλαί γε καὶ δωδεκάπαλαι καὶ χιλιόπαλαι καὶ προπαλαιπαλαίπαλαι. (Aristotle, Episode4)

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