A.“διπλέη” Hdt.3.42 codd., but διπλήν or “-ῆν” Id.5.90, διπλάς or “-ᾶς” Id.3.28: contr. always in Trag., exc. “διπλόοι” A.Fr.39: (cf. ἁπλόος):—twofold, double, prop. of cloaks and articles of dress, χλαῖνα διπλῆ, = δίπλαξ or διπλοΐς, Il.10.134, Od.19.226; ὅθι . . διπλόος ἤντετο θώρηξ where the cuirass met [the buckle] so as to be double, Il.4.133; τὴν ἐπωμίδα πτύξας διπλῆν having folded it double, Apollod.Car.4: generally, “καλύβη διπλῆ διαφράγματι” Th.1.133; “διπλόος θάνατος” Hdt.6.104; παῖσον διπλῆν (sc. πληγήν) S.El.1415; “δ. οἰκίδιον” of two stories, Lys.1.9; διπλῆ ἄκανθα spine bent double by age, E.El.492; διπλῆ <ῥάχις> X.Eq.1.11; “σύμβολον δ.” executed in duplicate, PHib.1.29 (iii B. C.).
4. of fevers in which two paroxysms took place in a given time, δ. ἀμφημερινός, τριταῖος, Gal.7.472, 9.677.
II. as Comp., twice as much, large, etc., “βίος” Pl.Ti.75b; “δίκη” Id.Lg.865c; δ. ἢ . . twice as much as . . (v. διπλῇ): c. gen., Id.Ti.35b; διπλοῦν ὀφείλειν ὅσον . . Lex ap.D.23.28; διπλῷ, = διπλῇ, Pl.Lg.722b.
IV. double, doubtful, “οὐ γνώμᾳ διπλόαν θέτο βουλάν” Pi.N.10.89; “διπλᾶς καὶ ἀμφιβόλους λέξεις” Ph.1.302.