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Δίδυμοι · twins (δ 878) · Suda

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Near δ878

δ874Didymus, Didymos
δ875Didymus the son of Heraclides
δ876Didymus, Didymos
δ877Didymos, Didymus, the Twin
δ878twins
δ879Didychmias
δ880to be moistened
δ881division, divisibility, dissection
δ882will be eternal

Suda/Δ delta/δ878

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Δίδυμοι

twins

Translated by Catharine Roth4 May 2004Vetting: high7 revisions

clothing
daily life
definition
epic
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- trade and manufacture

2 notes · 33 words

Translation

We customarily [use this word to mean] those who are born together; in a special sense [it is used to mean] single individuals.¹ Or [for things which occur] doubly, as "with twin pipes."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δίδυμοι· συνήθως ἡμῖν καὶ οἱ συμφυεῖς, ἰδίως οἱ μόνοι· ἢ δισσῶς· καί, αὐλοῖσι διδύμοις.

Betacode

*di/dumoi: sunh/qws h(mi=n kai\ oi( sumfuei=s, i)di/ws oi( mo/noi: h)\ dissw=s: kai/, au)loi=si didu/mois.

Notes (2)

Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
1Aristarchus, reported by a scholion on Homer, Iliad 23.638 (web address 1). Less than self-explanatory here in the Suda, Aristarchus' contention was that in this instance the headword did not mean a pair of twins such as the Dioskouroi (delta 1209) but difuei=s, men with two bodies. ↩
2Homer, Odyssey 19.227, on the pins of a brooch (web address 2). For another impersonal application see delta 870.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

δ876ΔίδυμοςDidymus, Didymos δ877ΔίδυμοςDidymos, Didymus, the Twin δ878Δίδυμοιtwins δ879ΔιδυχμίαςDidychmias δ880Διαίνεσθαιto be moistened

Revision history7 revisions · last 23 Aug 2013

23 Aug 2013typo — Catharine Roth
23 Aug 2013another note — David Whitehead
4 Jul 2012Revised — David Whitehead
4 Jul 2012expanded n.2; more keywords — David Whitehead
24 Jul 2011tweaked link — Catharine Roth
7 May 2004modified translation; augmented note 1 — David Whitehead
5 May 2004x-ref — David Whitehead
4 May 2004Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δίδυμοι (Adler number delta 878), trans. Catharine Roth, 4 May 2004. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/878

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗