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διπλασίονα (diplasiona)

διπλασίονα is an Ancient Greek form of διπλασίων, meaning “double, twice as great”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Tactica 16.11: ἄρισται δέ εἰσιν αἱ διπλασίονα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἐν τῷ μήκει ἤπερ ἐν τῷ βάθει ἔχουσαι· οἷον εἰ ἐπὶ δέκα κατὰ μέτωπον τεταγμένοι εἶεν καὶ ἐπὶ πέντε ἐς βάθος, ἢ ἐπὶ εἴκοσι μὲν κατὰ μέτωπον, ἐπὶ δέκα δʼ ἐς βάθος.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.17·2: … ίλης Συρίας τέλη καὶ τὰ τῆς Φοινίκης καὶ Ἰουδαίας καὶ Σαμαρείας ὠνουμένων τῶν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι δυνατῶν, ὁ Ἰωσὴφ διπλασιονα δώσειν ὑπισχνεῖτο. τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως κατανεύσαντος, ἐρομένου δὲ εἰ τοὺς ἐγγυησομένους αὐτὸν ἔχει, “δώσω” εἶπεν …

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.