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δι-φυ^ής , ές: neut. pl. διφυῆ, also
A.“διφυᾶ” Arist. PA669b18 (s. v. l.):—of double nature or form, “ἔχιδνα μειξοπάρθενος δ.” Hdt.4.9; of Centaurs, S.Tr. 1095, Pherecyd.50 J.; of Pan, Pl.Cra.408d; Κέκροψ, i. e. man and serpent, but expld. as of double sex (Suid.), or of double race (Egyptian and Greek), D.S.1.28; “δ. Ἔρως” sexual intercourse, Orph.A. 14.
2. generally, twofold, double, κόραι Ion Lyr.16; “ὀφρύες” Arist. HA491b14; στῆθος διφυὲς μαστοῖς ib.493a12; “ἡ τῶν μυκτήρων δύναμις” Id.PA657a4; μῦς, of the biceps, Gal.UP13.13; “αὐλός” Aret.SD2.13.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.9
    • Plato, Cratylus, 408d
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1095
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.13
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.28
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