A.twofold, double, Hdt.4.68, etc.: never in Trag. (δίκρουν is prob. in A.Fr.152): freq. as Comp. folld. by ἤ . . Hdt.6.57, Th.1.10, etc.; also διπλήσιον ἢ ὅσον . . Hdt. 7.23: or c. gen., twice the size of, Id.6.133; “δ. ἐγίνετο αὐτὸς ἑωυτοῦ” Id.8.137; “διπλάσια τῶν ἄλλων” D.18.238; “δ. τῆς ἀληθείας” Philem.160; διπλασίοις ἐλάττω (sc. τὰ χρήματα) D.27.52.
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