A.yoke of beasts, pair or team of mules, oxen or horses, Il.18.543, IG5(2).3.1 (Arc., iv B.C.), etc.; “ζ. ἵππων” And. 4.26.
2. carriage drawn by a yoke of beasts, a chariot, “ζεύγεϊ κομίζεσθαι” Hdt.1.31; ἐπὶ ζευγέων ἐλάσασαι ib.199; “ἐπὶ ζεύγους ἄγειν” And. 1.45; “τῷ ζεύγει ὃ ἦγεν τὴν γυναῖκα” Hyp.Lyc.5; wagons, “ζεύγεσι τοὺς λίθους ἄγουσι” SIG124 (iv B.C.); “βοεικά” Th.4.128; racing-car,= τέθριππον, Id.5.50; “ζ. τέθριππον” A.Fr.346; “ἢ συνωρίδι ἢ ζεύγει νενίκηκεν” Pl.Ap.36d (but = συνωρίς, Plu.2.146d); ζ. μίσθιον a hired chariot, Id.Ant.6; λευκὸν ζ. with white horses, D.21.158.
II. pair or couple of any things, ἰρήκων, αἰγυπιῶν, Hdt.3.76; πεδέων ib.130; “Ἀτρειδᾶν” A. Ag.44 (anap.); “ἐμβάδων” Ar.Eq.872, cf. Herod.7.51; “ἐνωτίων” BGU 1050.9 (Aug.), etc.; “κεράμου” IG12.313.23, al.; [κεράμων] SIG245 Gi36 (Delph., iv B.C.); “θυρῶν” IG12.313.110; “ταὧν” Antiph.205; “καλλιπύγων” Cerc.14: abs., married couple, “τὸ ζ., ὃ καλεῖται θῆλυ καὶ ἄρρεν” X.Oec. 7.18; τὸ ἐρωτικὸν ζ. Luc.Am.11; κατὰ ζεῦγος in pairs, Plu.2.93d; “ἐς ζεύγεα” Luc.Syr.D.12.
2. mouthpiece of a double flute, Thphr.HP 4.11.4,6.
III. incorrectly also of more than two things or persons joined together, ζ. τριπάρθενον three maiden sisters, of the Graces, E.Fr.357; so “ζ. τρίδουλον” Ar.Fr.576; ζ. νεκρῶν, where parents and children are spoken of, E.HF454.
IV. = Lat. jugerum, Cod.Just.10.27.2.8.
