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|Definition=οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl., <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[ten]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.372</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.9.160</span>, etc.; [[οἱ δέκα]] [[the Ten]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.18.6</span>; ἡ τῶν δ. τυραννίς <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>41.2</span>; also [[οἱ δέκα]] = the [[Attic]] [[orator]]s, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VS</span>2.1.14</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ δέκα [ἔτη] ἀφ' ἥβης</b> those who are [[ten]] years past <span class="bibl">20</span> (the age of [[military]] [[service]]), <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.4.23</span>; [[δέκα ἄνδρες]] = Lat. [[decemviri]], <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Hann.</span>56</span>: compds. (not in early writers, but usu. in Hellenistic Gr.) δεκᾰ-είς, <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>2.34, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Num.</span>3</span>: δεκαδύο, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>5.509.10</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="title">IG</span>22.1013.31 (ii/i B.C.), <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Cat.Mi.</span>44</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>19.7</span>: δεκατρεῖς, <span class="bibl">D.47.77</span>,81, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>644.5</span> (i A.D.): δεκατέσσαρες, α, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.36.11</span>, etc.; Delph. δεκατέτορες <span class="title">SIG</span>241<span class="title">A</span>2 (iv B.C.): δεκαπέντε, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRev.Laws</span>12.17</span> (iii B.C., prob.), <span class="bibl">D.S.2.13</span> codd.; Thess. δεκαπέμπε <span class="title">IG</span>9(2).553.13 (Larisa, i B.C.): δεκαέξ, <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span>2.40,<span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.379.6</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ge.</span>46.18</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.2.5.42</span>: δεκαεπτά, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>5.509.13</span> (iii B.C.), v.l. in <span class="bibl">D.S.12.36</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>5.11.4</span>, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>1.114</span>, etc.: δεκαοκτώ, <span class="title">IG</span> 2.1054.47, <span class="bibl">Cleonid.<span class="title">Harm.</span>2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>13.11</span>: δεκαεννέα, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.396.12</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">D.S.12.71</span>, Plu.2.932b:—hence δεκα-έννατος, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[nineteenth]], ἡμέρα <span class="bibl">Lyd.<span class="title">Ost.</span>18</span>.</span>