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τέτταρες

Numeral; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέτταρες τέτταρα

Sense

  1. (cardinal) four

Declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὕτωσ οὐδέν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἀμισθὶ ποιοῦσιν ὧν ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ πωλοῦσιν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ τἀγαθά, καὶ ἔνεστι πρίασθαι παρ’ αὐτῶν τὸ μὲν ὑγιαίνειν, εἰ τύχοι, βοϊδίου, τὸ δὲ πλουτεῖν βοῶν τεττάρων, τὸ δὲ βασιλεύειν ἑκατόμβησ, τὸ δὲ σῶον ἐπανελθεῖν ἐξ Ἰλίου εἰσ Πύλον ταύρων ἐννέα, καὶ τὸ ἐκ τῆσ Αὐλίδοσ εἰσ Ἴλιον διαπλεῦσαι παρθένου βασιλικῆσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 2:2)
  • τῶν δὲ μεταφορῶν τεττάρων οὐσῶν, εὐδοκιμοῦσι μάλιστα αἱ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 82)
  • "ὡσ δὲ μικροῦ κατέλευσαν αὐτὸν ἐπιδραμόντεσ ἅπαντεσ, τότε μὲν ἐπὶ τὸν Δία καταφυγὼν ὁ γενναῖοσ εὑρ́ετο μὴ ἀποθανεῖν, ἐσ δὲ τὴν ἑξῆσ Ὀλυμπιάδα λόγον τινὰ διὰ τεττάρων ἐτῶν συνθεὶσ τῶν διὰ μέσου ἐξήνεγκε πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, ἔπαινον ὑπὲρ τοῦ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπαγαγόντοσ καὶ ἀπολογίαν ὑπὲρ τῆσ τότε φυγῆσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:46)
  • καθαρὸσ ὡσ ἐπίπαν οὑτοσὶ πλὴν τούτων τριῶν ἢ τεττάρων ἀμαυρῶν πάνυ καὶ ἀσαφῶν στιγμάτων. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 24:9)
  • ἴδοισ ἂν οὖν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τεττάρων βεβηκυῖαν ἔχουσάν τι ἐν τοῖν χεροῖν μετέωρον ἐδώδιμον, ἀνθρωπίνωσ πάνυ καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. four

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