τέσσᾰρες, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά,
genitive ων: dative τέσσαρσι (ν) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21, NT.Act.12.4, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; poetry τέτρᾰσι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 188, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.68, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+], and in late Prose, as [[ LXX.Judg.9.34, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.1.3, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ μεθόδου δεινότητος” 29, 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Topicorum libros octo commentaria - pars” 208.12, “in Sens.” 54.18, “PSI” 10.1126.9 (3rd c.AD)] LXX+1st c.BC+], variant in [[ NT.Act.11.5 (codex D)] NT], and in good codices of [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 704a11, +others, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 19, etc.; also τέταρσι “SIG” 729.3 (Delph., 1st c.BC), “PSI” 9.1028.10 (1st c.AD)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—Attic dialect τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα, dative τέτταρσιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τάρων (see. τάρες) for τεττάρω; Phocian dative τεττάροις [[ “IG” 9(1).32.78 (Stiris, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect and later Gr. τέσσερες, τέσσερα, [[ “SIG” 57.25 (Milet., 5th c.BC), “Schwyzer” 289.120 (Rhodian, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc. (dative τέσσερσι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.41, τεσσέρασιν “SIG” 633.98 (Milet., 2nd c.BC)), but τέσσαρες in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, and “Schwyzer” 707 B 4 (Ephesus, 6th c.BC), etc.: codices of LXX have τέσσαρες (_nominative_ and _accusative_), τεσσάρων, τέσσαρσι, but τέσσερα(ς), τεσσεράκοντα] LXX+8th c.BC+]; since however τέσσερα(ς) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from Ionic dialect, are not common in Papyri before 2nd c.AD, the LXX autographs probably had τέσσαρα(ς) and τεσσαράκοντ; the form τέσσερα(ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:—Doric dialect τέτορες, τέτορα, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 698, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 3, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 91, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 149, “SIG” 240 I 8 (Delph., 4th c.BC), +others, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.16:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —Epic dialect (probably _Aeolic dialect_) πίσῠρες [ῐ] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.70, 16.249, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1110, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 182; _accusative_ πίσῠρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.111, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.680, +others, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 105, “IGRom.” 4.360.26 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; genitive πισύρων [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “Vita Isidori” 290 (metrical?), probably in 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; dative πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις, [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 16.119, 38.176, 236, 39.377, “Anthologia Graeca” 14.7.4] Refs 4th c.AD+]: Aeolic dialect also πέσῠρες, neuter πέσῠρα [[ “epigram Gr.” 988.6 (from Balbilla)] Refs]; and πέσσῠρες, πέσσῠρα, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—Boeotian dialect πέττᾰρες, α (which see):—four, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.335, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of the fourth, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.55, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ τέσσαρα the four simple bodies of Empedocles, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.2 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, [[ [prev. author] 6.1.10 ] Refs]; the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (compare τετραφάρμακος), [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1251.11] Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit catvā´ras (accusative catúras), Latin quattuor, Lithuanian keturì, etc.: I.-[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] q[uglide]et[uglide]or-.)