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δίδυ^μος [ι^], η, ον, also ος, ον v.l. in Pi.P.4.209, E.HF656 (lyr.), Pl.Criti.113e:—redupl. from δύο,
A.double, twofold, Od.19.227, etc.; “διδύμαιν χειροῖν” S.El.206 (lyr.): also in sg., χερὶ διδύμᾳ with both hands, Pi.P.2.9; δ. ἅλς, i. e. the Pontus and Bosporus, S.Ant.967 (lyr.); “δ. γένος” AP7.72 (Men.); “δ. ξύλον” forked, LXXJo.8.29; τὸ γλυκύ μοι δ., of a wife, IG14.1974.
II. twin, “δ. κασίγνητος” Pi.N.1.36; “δ. τέκνων ἄριστα” S.OC1693 (lyr.); “δ. τέκεα” E.Hel.220 (lyr.).
III. Subst., “δίδυμοι” twins, Il.23.641, Hdt.5.41: of the Twins in the zodiac, Eudox. ap. Hipparch.1.2.8, Arat.147, IG14.1307; also δίδυμα, τά, Hdt. 6.52; “δύο διδύμω” E.Or.1401 (lyr.).
2. the testicles, LXXDe.25.11, AP5.125 (Phld.): sg., Herophil. ap. Gal.UP14.11.
3. ovaries, Herophil. l. c., Sor.1.12.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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