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δάκτυ^λος , ὁ, poet. pl.
A.“δάκτυλα” Theoc.19.3, AP9.365 (Jul. Imp.), also Arist.Phgn.810a22: -finger, ἐπὶ δακτύλων συμβάλλεσθαι τοὺς μῆνας to reckon on the fingers, Hdt.6.63; “ὁ μέγας δ.” the thumb, Id.3.8, Diog.Apoll.6; “ὁ μέσος” Arist.PA687b18; “οἱλιχανοί” Hp.Art.37; “ὁ ἔσχατος” Id.PA687b17: prov., “ἄκρῳ δ. γεύεσθαι” Procop.Gaz.Ep. 31; “οὐκ ἄξια ψόφου δακτύλων” Clearch.5.
2. “οἱ δ. τῶν ποδῶν” the toes, X.An.4.5.12; and, without ποδός, Batr.45, Ar.Eq.874, Arist. HA494a12; “τὸ τῶν δ. μέγεθος ἐναντίως ἔχει ἐπί τε τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν” Id.PA690a30; ὁ μέσος δ. of a monkey, Id.HA502b3; ὁ μείζων δ. the great toe, Plu.Pyrrh.3. b. of the toes of beasts, Arist.HA498a34; of birds, Id.PA695a22.
II. a measure of length, finger's breadth, = about 7/10 of an inch, Hdt.1.60, al.; “πώνωμεν, δάκτυλος ἀμέρα” Alc.41; “δάκτυλος ἀώς” AP12.50 (Asclep.): Astron., digit, i.e. twelfth part of the sun's or moon's apparent diameter, Cleom.2.3.
III. metrical foot, dactyl, -^ ^, Pl.R.400b; “ῥυθμὸς κατὰ δάκτυλον” Ar.Nu.651; δ. κατ᾽ ἵαμβον, diiambus, Aristid. Quint.1.17.
2. δάκτυλοι, οἱ, a dance, Ath.14.629d.
IV. date, fruit of the φοῖνιξ, Arist.Mete.342a10, Artem.5.89.
2. kind of grape, Plin.HN14.15, Colum. 3.2.1.
3. = ἄγρωστις, Plin.HN24.182.
V. Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι mythical wizards and craftsmen in Crete (or Phrygia, D.S.17.7), attached to the cult of Rhea Cybele, Hes.Fr. 176, Pherecyd.47 J., S.Fr.364, Str.8.3.30, D.S.5.64, IG12(9).259.22 (Eretria).
2. δ. Ἰδαῖοι, = γλυκυσίδη, Dsc.3.140.
b. fossil found in Crete, Plin.HN37.170.
VI. δ. θεοῦ the hand of God, LXX Ex.8.19, cf. Ev.Luc.11.20. (Orig. Δάτκυλος, cf. Boeot. “δακκύλιος” Schwyzer 462B51; δατ- = d[ngnull]t, cf. Skt. a-datkas 'toothless'.)
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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