ἑπτά, οἱ, αἱ, τά,
indeclinable seven, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.421, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a mystical number, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1093a13, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ ἑ. νῆσοι the seven largest islands, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 268, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 837a31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ ἑ. θεάματα the [[ “Seven” Wonders, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.33, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.11, etc.] Refs 1st c.BC+]; οἱ ἑ. σοφισταί the [[ “Seven” Sages, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.109, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 2.311 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; οἱ ἑ. σοφοί 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 3.1.172 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἑ. alone, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.40, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 286.3. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__2 οἱ ἑ., board of magistrates at Olbia, [[ “SIG” 495.2 (3rd c.BC) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οἱ ἑ. ἄνδρες, = Latin septemviri epulones, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 48.32. (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] sept[macutenull], cf. Sanskrit saptá, Latin septem (fancifully connected with σέβομαι, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.30, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 43): 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus has τεπτά, i.e. ηεπτά.) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]