τρεισκαίδεκα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=οἱ, αἱ<b class="b3">, τριακαίδεκα, τά,</b> first as three words, later as one, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[thirteen]]: gen. τριῶν καὶ δέκα <span class="bibl">Th.2.97</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.372.87, etc.: dat. τρισὶ καὶ δέκα <span class="bibl">Th.8.108</span>, <span class="bibl">D.9.25</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1673.7, etc.: acc. neut. [[τριακαίδεκα]] (or <b class="b3">τρία καὶ δέκα</b>) <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.119</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>194</span>,<span class="bibl">846</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pax</span>990</span>:—sts other words are interposed, τρεῖς τε καὶ δ. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.79</span>, but [[μέν]] follows [[τρισκαίδεκα]] in <span class="bibl">B.10.92</span> and [[δέ]] in <span class="bibl">Th.3.79</span> (s. v. l., [[δέ]] om. codd. BM):— the form [[τρισκαίδεκα]] (acc. masc. and fem.) is found in codd. of Hom. <span class="bibl">Il.5.387</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.24.340</span> (in Od. τρεισκαίδεκα, διὰ διφθόγγου γράφουσι τὰ τῶν ἀντιγράφων ἀκριβέστερα Eust. ad loc.); also of <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>135</span> (v. l.), B. l. c. (Pap.), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>50</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.1.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.3.69</span>,<span class="bibl">79</span>, <span class="bibl">8.88</span> (<b class="b3">τρεῖς καὶ δέκα</b> cod. B); τρισκαίδεκα as gen., <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>2.133</span> (<b class="b3">τρεισ-</b> cod. D), <span class="bibl">Is.8.35</span>; as dat., <span class="bibl">Th.8.22</span> codd.:—early Inscrr., however, never have [[τρισκαίδεκα]], but τρεῖς [τρε̄ς] καὶ δέκα ἡμέραι <span class="title">IG</span>12.295.11 (v B. C.); στατῆρας τρεισκαίδεκα <span class="title">SIG</span>241 <span class="title">B</span>101 (Delph., iv B. C.); <b class="b3">τρε[ισκαί]δεκα πόλεων</b> ib.368<span class="title">B</span>1 (iii B. C.); λίθων τρεισκαίδεκα <span class="title">IG</span>7.3073.134 (Lebad., ii B. C.); so that [[τρισκαίδεκα]] should be corrected in all early texts (in spite of Choerob. in <span class="title">An.Ox.</span>2.267) either to <b class="b3">τριῶν καὶ δ</b>., etc., or to [[τρεισκαίδεκα]]: the same applies to the following compds.: v. [[τρεισκαιδέκατος]].</span>