δύʼ (dy)

δύʼ is an Ancient Greek form of δύο, meaning “two”. It is the numeral.

Found 246 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1256: καὶ δʼ αὐτὸς μετέπειτα παλύνετο· δῦ δέ μιν ἀλκὴ

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.49: Τοῦ δὴ 〈δια〉λόγου τοῦ Πλατωνικοῦ δύʼ εἰσὶν ἀνωτάτω χαρακτῆρες, ὅ τε ὑφηγητικὸς καὶ ὁ ζητητικός. διαιρεῖται δὲ ὁ ὑφηγητικὸς εἰς ἄλλους δύο χαρακτῆρ …

Euripides, Hippolytus 387: οὐκ ἂν δύ’ ἤστην ταὔτ’ ἔχοντε γράμματα.

All forms of δύο (declension table)

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.