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διτάλαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διτάλαντος διτάλαντον

Structure: διταλαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ta/lanton

Sense

  1. worth or weighing two talents, costing two talents

Examples

  • τὰσ γὰρ ἀνατεθείσασ ὑπὸ Κροίσου τοῦ Λυδῶν βασιλέωσ χρυσᾶσ πλίνθουσ, οὔσασ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι διταλάντουσ, κατέκοψεν εἰσ νόμισμα, φιάλασ δὲ χρυσᾶσ τριακοσίασ καὶ ἑξήκοντα διμναίουσ καὶ λέοντα χρυσοῦν καὶ γυναῖκα, τριάκοντα ταλάντων χρυσοῦ σταθμὸν ἀγόντων τῶν πάντων· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 56 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. worth or weighing two talents

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

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