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πλήθει, dual use of πλῆθος in Philebus
One word seems to me somehow very strange with its dual number. It is in a passage from Plato's Philebus:
φωνὴ μὲν ἡμῖν ἐστί που μία διὰ τοῦ στόματος ἰοῦσα, καὶ ἄπειρος αὖ
πλήθει, πάντων τε καὶ ἑκάσ …
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feminine form of λύκος
λύκος is the Ancient Greek word for 'wolf' in singular masculine form. What is then the feminine form of wolf? I've guessed it as λύκη but what I've found in a dictionary is that it means 'light'. Is …
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Composition of a word ἡμιόλιος
The Ancient Greek word ἡμιόλιος means literally "one and a half", referring to the ratio 3:2 and the interval of a perfect fifth in music. I wonder how this word is composed of:
is it
ἡμι- (half) + ὅλ …
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