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πολλαπλα?́σι-ος , α, ον （ος, ον Alcid.Soph.28), Ion. πολλαπλα^σι-πλήσιος , η, ον, (πολύς)
A.many (or a number of) times as many or as large, Hdt.3.135, 8.140.“α᾽; π. πρὸς πολλοστημόριον” Arist.Metaph.1020b27; π. ἤπερ . . , ἢ . . , many times as many as . ., many times more or larger than . . , Hdt.4.50, al., Pl.R.530c: c. gen., Hdt.7.48, Antipho 3.2.10, Th. 4.94, etc.; π. τινὸς τῷ αὐτῷ ἀριθμῷ the same multiple of . . , Archim. Spir.19Cor.; also π. τινὸς κατὰ τοὺς ἑξῆς ἀριθμούς ib.Praef. Adv. “-ίως” Hp.Acut.62, Epicur.Nat.111 G., Archim.Aren.1.2, D.C.44.39, etc.; “π. ταχύ” Anaxag.9: neut. pl. as Adv., X.Cyr.1.5.9.
II. π. ἀναλογία, prob. geometrical progression, Arist.APo.78a1.
III. πολλαπλάσιον, τό, a multiple: in pl., ἰσάκις π. equimultiples, Euc.5 Def.5; ὡσαύτως π. the same multiples, Id.5.15.
IV. Adv. “-ίως” by multiplication, Dam.Pr.148.
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 (9):
    • Antiphon, Second Tetralogy, 2.10
    • Euclid, Elements, 5
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.50
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.135
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.48
    • Plato, Republic, 530c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.5.9
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.94
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 44.39
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