τέσσαρες: Difference between revisions

|Definition=οἱ, αἱ<b class="b3">, τέσσαρα, τά</b>, gen. ων: dat. [[τέσσαρσι]] (ν) Th.2.21, ''Act.Ap.''12.4, etc.; ''poet.'' τέτρᾰσι Hes.''Fr.''188, Pi.''O.''8.68, al., and in late Prose, as [[LXX]] ''Jd.''9.34, Str.13.1.3, Hermog.''Meth.''29, Alex.Aphr.''in Top.''208.12,''in Sens.''54.18, ''PSI''10.1126.9 (iii A.D.), [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in ''Act.Ap.''11.5 (cod. D), and in good codd. of Arist.''IA''704a11, al., ''Theol.Ar.''19, etc.; also [[τέταρσι]] ''SIG''729.3 (Delph., i B.C.), ''PSI''9.1028.10 (i A.D.):—Att. τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα, dat. τέτταρσιν Isoc.12.3; also [[τάρων]] (v. [[τάρες]]) for [[τεττάρων]]; Phocian dat. τεττάροις ''IG''9(1).32.78 (Stiris, ii B.C.):—Ion. and later Gr. τέσσερες, [[τέσσερα]], ''SIG''57.25 (Milet., v B.C.), ''Schwyzer'' 289.120 (Rhodian, ii B.C.), etc. (dat. τέσσερσι Hdt.6.41, τεσσέρασιν ''SIG''633.98 (Milet., ii B.C.)), but [[τέσσαρες]] in Hom., and ''Schwyzer''707 ''B'' 4 (Ephesus, vi B.C.), etc.: codd. of [[LXX]] have [[τέσσαρες]] (nom. and acc.), [[τεσσάρων]], [[τέσσαρσι]], but <b class="b3">τέσσερα (ς), τεσσεράκοντα</b>; since however [[τέσσερα]] (ς) and [[τεσσεράκοντα]], apart from Ion., are not common in Papyri before ii A.D., the [[LXX]] autographs prob. had [[τέσσαρα]] (ς) and [[τεσσαράκοντα]]; the form [[τέσσερα]] (ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence <b class="b3">ε-α-α</b>:—Dor. [[τέτορες]], [[τέτορα]], Hes.''Op.'' 698, Phoc.3, Simon.91, Epich.149, ''SIG''240''I''8 (Delph., iv B.C.), al., Theoc.14.16:—Ep. (prob. Aeol.) πίσῠρες [ῐ] Od.5.70, 16.249, A.R. 2.1110, Nic.''Th.''182; acc. πίσῠρας Od.22.111, Il.15.680, al., Call.''Dian.'' 105, ''IGRom.''4.360.26 (Pergam., ii A.D.); gen. πισύρων Dam.''Isid.''290 (metrical?), prob. in [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; dat. <b class="b3">πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις</b>, [[Nonnus Epicus|Nonn.]] ''[[Dionysiaca|D.]]'' 16.119, 38.176, 236, 39.377, ''AP''14.7.4: Aeol. also πέσῠρες, neut. πέσῠρα ''Epigr.Gr.''988.6 (Balbilla); and πέσσῠρες, πέσσῠρα, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]:—Boeot. πέττᾰρες, α ([[quod vide|q.v.]]):—[[four]], Od.9.335, etc.; <b class="b3">διὰ τεττάρων</b> the musical interval of [[the fourth]], Damox.2.55, etc.; <b class="b3">τὰ τέσσαρα</b> [[the four simple bodies]] of Empedocles, Plot.6.2.2; [[the four kinds of quality]] or four Aristotelian senses of [[ποιόν]], Id.6.1.10; [[the four cardinal principles]] of Epicurus (cf. [[τετραφάρμακος]]), Phld.''Herc.''1251.11. (Cf. Skt. catvā́ras (acc. [[catúras]]), Lat. [[quattuor]], Lith. keturì, etc.: I.-E. qu̯etu̯or-.)