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ἑπτά , οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.
A.seven, Il.6.421, etc.; as a mystical number, Arist.Metaph.1093a13, etc.; αἱ ἑ. νῆσοι the seven largest islands, Alex.268, cf. Arist.Mir.837a31 ; τὰ ἑ. θεάματα the Seven Wonders, Str.17.1.33, cf.D.S.2.11, etc.; οἱ ἑ. σοφισταί the Seven Sages, Isoc. 15.109, Aristid.2.311 J.; “οἱ ἑ. σοφοί” Stob.3.1.172 ; οἱ ἑ. alone, D.L. 1.40, Lib.Ep.286.3.
2. οἱ ἑ., board of magistrates at Olbia, SIG 495.2 (iii B.C.) ; οἱ ἑ. ἄνδρες, = Lat. septemviri epulones, D.C.48.32. (I.-E. sept[macutenull], cf. Skt. saptá, Lat. septem (fancifully connected with σέβομαι, Ph.1.30, Theol.Ar.43) : Hsch. has τεπτά, i.e. ηεπτά.）
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.421
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 109
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.33
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.11
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 48.32
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