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ἰσό-ψηφος , ον,
A.with or by an equal number of votes, “ἢν ἰ. κριθῇ” A.Eu.741; ἰ. δίκη ib.795.
II. having an equal vote with others, “ξύμμαχοι” Th.1.141, cf. 3.11; of a commander, ib.79; “ποιεῖν [δύναμιν] ἰσόψηφόν τινι” Pl.Lg.692a; of communities, possessing an equal franchise, “ἐλευθερώσας τήνδ᾽ ἰ. πόλιν” E.Supp.353.
2. voting alike, D.H.4.20.
III. equal in numerical value, of words in which the values of letters added together make up the same sum, "Δαμαγόραν" καὶ "λοιμὸν" ἰσόψηφόν τις ἀκούσας (both words make up 270), AP11.334; “ἰσόψηφος δυσὶ τούτοις "Γάϊος" ὡς "ἅγιος", ὡς "ἀγαθὸς" προλέγω” IGRom.4.743 (Eumenia), cf. Gell.14.6.4, Artem.3.34, 4.24; for examples cf. the epigrams of Leonidas, AP6.321 sqq.
2. ἰ. ἑστία, name of a plaster, containing a number of drachms equal to the numerical value of its name, Nech. ap. Aët.15.13.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 795
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 741
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 353
    • Plato, Laws, 692a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.141
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.20
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 270
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