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χίλιοι [χι_], αι, α: gen. pl. fem. χιλιῶν, irreg. in Att. acc. to Hdn. Gr.1.426 (prob. only when χίλιαι was used as a fem. Subst. (v. infr. 3)); dat. pl. fem. (orig. loc.)
A.“χιλία_σιν” IG12.10.18; χιλίαισι ib.76.20, 94.10; later χιλίαις: dialect forms, Locr. χίλιοι (as in Att., v. supr.) IG9(1).334.39 (Oeanthea, v B. C.); Dor. χήλιοι (written χέλ- ) ib. 5(1).1.23 (Sparta, v B. C.), Lesb., Thess. χέλλιοι EM817.1 (cf. χελληστύς), IG9(2).1229.29 (Phalanna, ii B. C.); Ion. χείλιοι Schwyzer 688C15 (Chios, v B. C.), which shd. prob. be restored in Hom., cf. δεκάχ（ε）ιλοι:—a thousand, Hom. only in neut., χ. μέτρα, πυρά, Il.7.471, 8.562; πρῶθ᾽ ἑκατὸν βοῦς δῶκεν, ἔπειτα δὲ χίλι᾽ ὑπέστη (sc. πρόβατα）“, αἶγας ὁμοῦ καὶ ὄϊς” 11.244: usu. agreeing with its Subst., Hes.Th. 364, etc.; but sts. as Subst. folld. by gen., “χίλιοι Μακεδόνων” Th.2.80: to express the addition of a smaller number, that number may either precede or follow, “διακόσιοι καὶ χ.” Isoc.4.87, 93, Pl.Criti.119b: but “χ. καὶ πεντακόσιοι” Aeschin.2.77; later καί is freq. omitted, Plb.3.33.10, LXX Da.12.11, Apoc.11.3; with Preps. “χ. ἐπὶ μυρίοις” Pl.Lg.895a; “τέτταρας πρὸς τοῖς χ.” Luc.Cat.4; οἱ χ. λογάδες (at Argos) the Thousand, Th.5.67, cf. D.S.12.80.
2. sg. with collect. nouns, χιλίη ἵππος a thousand horse, Hdt.5.63, 7.41; “τὴν ἵππον τὴν χιλίην” Id.8.113; so “ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν” X.Cyr.4.6.2; also χιλία ὁλοκαύτωσις burnt-offering of 1000 cattle, LXX 3 Ki.3.4.
3. χίλιαι (sc. δραχμαί) as Subst., a thousand drachmae, “περὶ χιλιῶν κινδυνεύειν” D.22.21; ἐν χιλίαις ὁ κίνδυνος ib.26 (χ. δραχμαί in full, Pl.Ap.36b). (Cf. Skt. sahásram 'a thousand' (with prefix sa- = sṃ-); I.-E. ĝheslo-, ĝheslio-.）
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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    • Plato, Laws, 895a
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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.6.2
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.244
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    • Polybius, Histories, 3.33.10
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