τεσσᾰράκοντα [ρᾰ],
Attic dialect τεττᾰράκοντα [[ “IG” 22.334.23] Refs]; Ionic dialect τεσσεράκοντα (which see); Sicilian Ionic τετράϟοντα [[ “Supp.epigram” 4.64 (6th c.BC)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τετρώκοντα [[ “Tab.Heracl.” 1.20, +others, “SIG” 241.67 (Delph., 4th c.BC), “IG” 5(2).357.16 (Stymphalus, 3rd c.BC), 9(1).880.15 (Corc.), compare τετρωκοντάλιτρος] Refs 4th c.BC+] and see at {τεσσαρακοστός}; once Doric dialect τεταράκοντα [[ “IG” 4.823.63 (from Troezen)] Refs]; Boeotian dialect πετταράκοντα (which see): οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable:—forty, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.524, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II οἱ τ. the Forty, a body of justices who went round the Attic demes to hear all causes up to ten drachmae, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.237 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also cases of assault, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: changed from Thirty to “Forty” after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 53.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]