δίδῠμος [ῐ], η, ον,
also ος, ον variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.209, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 656 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 113e:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —reduplicate from δύο, double, twofold, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.227, etc.; διδύμαιν χειροῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 206 (Lyric poetry): also in _sing._, χερὶ διδύμᾳ] Refs 8th c.BC+] with both hands, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ἅλς, i. e. the Pontus and Bosporus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 967 (Lyric poetry); δ. γένος “Anthologia Graeca” 7.72 (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus); δ. ξύλον ] Refs 5th c.BC+]forked, [[ LXX.Josh.8.29 ] LXX]; τὸ γλυκύ μοι δ., of a wife, [[ “IG” 14.1974. ] Refs]
__II twin, δ. κασίγνητος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.36; δ. τέκνων ἄριστα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1693 (Lyric poetry); δ. τέκεα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 220 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III substantive, δίδυμοι twins, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.641, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.41 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: of the Twins in the zodiac, [[ 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.8, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 147, “IG” 14.1307] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also δίδυμα, τά, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52; δύο διδύμω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1401 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 the testicles, [[ LXX.Deu.25.11, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.125 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus): _sing._, 3rd c.BC: Herophilus Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 14.11. ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]