A.twice, doubly, with Nouns, δ. τόσσον twice as much, Od. 9.491, cf. Th.6.57, etc.; “ἀληθὴς ὁ λόγος ὡς δ. παῖς γέρων” Cratin.24; “δ. παῖδες οἱ γέροντες” Theopomp.Com.69: more freq. with Verbs, “τοῦτο δ. ἤδη ἐγένετο” Hdt.8.104; “δ. φράσαι” A.Pers.173, cf. Ag.1384; “δ. αἰάζειν καὶ τρίς” S.Aj.432; “δ. καὶ τρίς φασι καλὸν εἶναι τὰ καλὰ λέγειν” Pl.Grg.498e, cf. Phlb.60a, Emp.25; “δ. βιῶναι” twice over, Men.223.4; “δειπνεῖν . . δ. τῆς ἡμέρας” Pl.Com.207; “ἐς δ.” App.Mith.78: ὁ δ. Νέωνος, = son and grandson of N., GDI3092.18 (Aegosthena); “Αὐρήλιος Αὐξάνων δ.” BCH17.249 (Apamea); “Αὐρ. Δοῦ<ρ>λος δ.” JHS19.301 (Selmea [Lycaonia]).—In compds. δι-, but δισ- in δισμύριοι, δισχίλιοι, δισθανής, δίσαβος, δισάρπαγος, δίσευνος, etc. (Cf. Skt. dvis 'twice', Lat. bis.）
δίς [ι^], Adv.
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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