Related to: δέκᾰ, οἱ, αἱ, τά,
indeclinable, ten, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.372, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.160, etc.; οἱ δ. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]the Ten, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 18.6; ἡ τῶν δ. τυραννίς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 41.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also οἱ δ. the Attic dialect Orators, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.14 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὰ δέκα [ἔτη] ἀφ᾽ ἥβης those who are ten years past [[ 20 (the age of military service), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ἄνδρες, = Latin decemviri, [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἀννιβαϊκή” 56: compounds (not in early writers, but usually in Hellenistic Gr.)] Refs 2nd c.AD+] δεκᾰ-είς, [[ “Tab.Heracl.” 2.34, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 3: δεκαδύο, “PSI” 5.509.10 (3rd c.BC), “IG” 22.1013.31 (2nd-1st c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 44, NT.Act.19.7: δεκατρεῖς, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.77,81, “BGU” 644.5 (1st c.AD): δεκατέσσαρες, α, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.36.11, etc.; Delph. δεκατέτορες “SIG” 241 A 2 (4th c.BC): δεκαπέντε, “PRev.Laws” 12.17 (3rd c.BC, probably), 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.13 codices ] NT+4th c.BC+]; Thess. δεκαπέμπε [[ “IG” 9(2).553.13 (Larisa, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]