δύο: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], also δύω in Ep., Eleg. and late, <span class="title">SIG</span>1231 (Nicomedia, iii/ iv A. D.), not in Ion. Inscrr. nor in Trag. (<b class="b3">δύο ῥοπάς</b> shd. be read in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1090</span>), nor in Att. Prose or Inscrr.: Lacon. acc. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> δύε <span class="title">IG</span>5(1).1; Thess. fem. [[δύας]] ib.9(2).517: gen. and dat. δυοῖν <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Vict.</span>1.3</span>, but f.l. in <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.11</span>,<span class="bibl">91</span> [used as monos. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>640</span>, cf. [[δώδεκα]] for [[δυώδ]]-]; later Att. also [[δυεῖν]] (esp. in fem. gen.) found in codd. of <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span> 536</span>, cited fr. Th. by Ael.Dion.(?) <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>372</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.20</span> (cod. Laur.); Boeot. δουῖν Corinn.<span class="title">Supp.</span>2.54; later δυσί, δυσὶν ἡμέραις <span class="bibl">Th.8.101</span> codd., <b class="b3">δυσὶν ἡμέρῃσι</b> [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in Hp.Acut.(Sp.) 67; δυοῖν ὄμμασι καὶ δυσὶν ἀκοαῖς <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1287b27</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">Men.699</span>, <span class="title">SIG</span>344.26 (Teos, iv B.C.), etc.: early Att. Inscrr. have δυοῖν <span class="title">IG</span>12.3.10, al., later δυεῖν <span class="title">SIG</span>2587.286, <span class="title">IG</span>22.463.78, al., from cent. iii on [[δυσί]] ib.1028.27, al.; Ion. gen. δυῶν <span class="title">GDI</span>5653d9 (Chios), <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.94</span>, <span class="bibl">130</span>, etc., dat. [[δυοῖσι]] ib. <span class="bibl">32</span>,<span class="bibl">7.104</span>; [[δυῶν]] also Dor., <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>1.40, <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>1.139; δυοῖς <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>7.46.— Used indecl., like [[ἄμφω]], by Hom. (who has no gen. or dat. [[δυοῖν]]), τῶν δύο μοιράων <span class="bibl">Il.10.253</span>; δύω κανόνεσσι <span class="bibl">13.407</span>, etc.; so in Hdt. and Att., δύο νεῶν <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.82</span>; δύο ζεύγεσι <span class="bibl">Id.3.130</span>; δύο νεῶν <span class="bibl">Th.3.89</span>; δύο πλέθρων <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>3.4.9</span>; with dual, <b class="b3">δύο μναῖν</b> dub. l. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Mem.</span> 2.5.2</span>; but not in Trag. and rare in Com., ἔτεσιν δύο <span class="bibl">Alex.105</span>; δύ' ἔτεσιν <span class="bibl">Damox.2.3</span>: not in Att. Inscrr. before the Roman period, <span class="title">IG</span>3.1443, al.:—[[two]], <span class="bibl">Il.1.16</span>, etc.; in Hom., [[δύο]] and [[δύω]] are sometimes joined with plural Nouns, δύο δ' ἄνδρες <span class="bibl">18.498</span>, al.; also in Trag., δύο κριούς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>237</span> (lyr.); in Att. Prose, δύο τέχνας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>464b</span>; but [[δυοῖν]] is rare with plural Nouns, ὀρθοστάταις δυοῖν <span class="title">IG</span>2.1054.64; <b class="b3">ἕνα καὶ δύο</b> one or [[two]], a few, <span class="bibl">Il.2.346</span>; δύ' ἢ τρεῖς <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>829</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span> 3.5.20</span>; <b class="b3">εἰς δύο</b> [[two and two]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.5.17</span>; <b class="b3">σὺν δύο</b> [[two]] together, <span class="bibl">Il. 10.224</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.66</span>; <b class="b3">δύο ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν</b> to split the state into [[two]], divide it, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1310a4</span>.</span>