A.double-folded, doubled, “δίπτυχον ἀμφ᾽ ὤμοισιν ἔχων . . λώπην” Od.13.224 (so δίπτυχα λώπην, metaplast. acc. as if from δίπτυξ, A.R.2.32); δ. δελτίον a pair of tablets, Hdt.7.239; δ. κάτοπτρον folding mirror, BGU717.12; κωδίκιλλοι δ. ib.326ii 15 (ii A. D.):—in the Homeric phrase δίπτυχα ποιήσαντες [τὴν κνίσην], δίπτυχα is interpr. by Sch. BT as an Adv., having doubled the fat, i. e. putting one layer of fat under the thighs (μηροί) and another over them, but may be acc., = fold, Il.1.461, al.
δί-πτυ^χος , ον, (πτύσσω)
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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