εἴκοσι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(for [[εἴκοσιν]] v. infr.), Att., Ion., also Arc., <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).3.1 (Tegea), and Aeol., ib.12(2).6.21 (Lesbos):—indecl., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[twenty]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.510</span>,<span class="bibl">748</span>, etc.; in Hom. more freq. in Ep. form ἐείκοσι, before a vowel [[ἐείκοσιν]], <span class="bibl">1.309</span>, <span class="bibl">6.217</span>, al.; Dor. ϝίκατι <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>4.13, etc.; ϝείκατι <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>2.71; Lacon. βείκατι Hsch.; εἴκατι <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).693.10 (Corc.), <span class="bibl">Theoc.4.10</span>, <span class="bibl">5.86</span>. (Orig. [[ϝῑκατι]] and [[Εϝῑκοσι]], whence [[ἐείκοσι]] in Hom.; [[ϝείκατι]] and [[εἴκατι]] are late spellings of (ϝ) <b class="b3">ῑκατι; εἴκοσι</b> is contr. from <b class="b3">*εϝῑκοσι</b>. Cf. Lat. [[vīginti]], Skt. [[viṃśatis]]. [[εἴκοσιν]] is the only form used by Ar., whether before vowels or consonants (<b class="b3">εἴκοσ' ἀπολογίζεται</b> is dub. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>465</span>); also (before consonants) <span class="bibl">Herod.3.91</span>, <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Piet.</span>3</span>, etc., but not common in Inscrr. or Pap., e.g. (before consonants) <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>707 <span class="title">B</span>2 (Ephesus, vi B. C.), <span class="title">IG</span>2.804.155 (iv B.C.), (before a vowel) <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGrenf.</span>2.75.7</span> (iv A. D.); <b class="b3">εἴκοσι ἔτη, εἴκοσι ἡμερῶν</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.94,49.)</span>