δέκʼ (dek)

δέκʼ is an Ancient Greek form of δέκα, meaning “ten”. It is the numeral.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.86: Ἔστι καὶ ἐφημερὶς ἡ θρυλουμένη οὕτως ἔχουσα· τίθει μαγείρῳ μνᾶς δέκʼ, ἰατρῷ δραχμήν, κόλακι τάλαντα πέντε, συμβούλῳ καπνόν, πόρνῃ τάλαντον, φιλοσόφῳ τριώβολον. Ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Θυ …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.16.144: … ἔθ’ ὁμῶς ἔργα μάταια θέλει· ἑπτὰ δὲ νοῦν καὶ γλῶσσαν ἐν ἑβδομάσιν μέγ’ ἄριστος ὀκτώ τ’ ἀμφοτέρων τέσσαρα καὶ δέκ’ ἔτη· τῇ δ’ ἐνάτῃ ἔτι μὲν δύναται, μετριώτερα δ’ αὐτοῦ πρὸς μεγάλην ἀρετὴν σῶμά τε καὶ δύναμις· τῇ δεκάτῃ δ’ ὅ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.