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διπλόος , η, ον, contr. διπλοῦς , ῆ, οῦν, Ion. fem.
A.“διπλέη” Hdt.3.42 codd., but διπλήν or “-ῆν” Id.5.90, διπλάς or “-ᾶς” Id.3.28: contr. always in Trag., exc. “διπλόοι” A.Fr.39: (cf. ἁπλόος):—twofold, double, prop. of cloaks and articles of dress, χλαῖνα διπλῆ, = δίπλαξ or διπλοΐς, Il.10.134, Od.19.226; ὅθι . . διπλόος ἤντετο θώρηξ where the cuirass met [the buckle] so as to be double, Il.4.133; τὴν ἐπωμίδα πτύξας διπλῆν having folded it double, Apollod.Car.4: generally, “καλύβη διπλῆ διαφράγματι” Th.1.133; “διπλόος θάνατος” Hdt.6.104; παῖσον διπλῆν (sc. πληγήν) S.El.1415; “δ. οἰκίδιον” of two stories, Lys.1.9; διπλῆ ἄκανθα spine bent double by age, E.El.492; διπλῆ <ῥάχις> X.Eq.1.11; “σύμβολον δ.” executed in duplicate, PHib.1.29 (iii B. C.).
2. διπλῇ χερὶ θανεῖν by mutual slaughter, S.Ant.14.
3. δ. ὀνόματα compound words, Arist.Po.1459a9, Rh.1404b29, etc.
4. of fevers in which two paroxysms took place in a given time, δ. ἀμφημερινός, τριταῖος, Gal.7.472, 9.677.
5. δ. ἰσότης, = διπλοϊσότης (q. v.), Dioph.p.98T., etc.
6. δ. ἄνδρας: τὰ δισύλλαβα ἀνδρῶν ὀνόματα, Hsch.
II. as Comp., twice as much, large, etc., “βίος” Pl.Ti.75b; “δίκη” Id.Lg.865c; δ. ἢ . . twice as much as . . (v. διπλῇ): c. gen., Id.Ti.35b; διπλοῦν ὀφείλειν ὅσον . . Lex ap.D.23.28; διπλῷ, = διπλῇ, Pl.Lg.722b.
III. pl., in Trag., = δύο, A.Pr.950, Ch.761, S.Aj.960, OT20, Ant.51.
IV. double, doubtful, “οὐ γνώμᾳ διπλόαν θέτο βουλάν” Pi.N.10.89; “διπλᾶς καὶ ἀμφιβόλους λέξεις” Ph.1.302.
2. double-minded, treacherous, E.Rh.395, etc.; “οὐδὲν δ.” X.HG4.1.32; “δ. καὶ ποικίλος” D.H.Rh.11.5; also, playing two parts, Pl.R.397e; at variance with oneself, ib. 554d.
V. διπλοῦν, τό, = δίπλωμα 111, Androm. ap. Gal.13.29, al.
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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