τεσσᾰράκοντα[ρᾰ], Att. τεττᾰράκονταIG22.334.23; Ion. τεσσεράκοντα (q.v.); Sicilian Ionic τετράονταSupp.Epigr.4.64 (vi B.C.); Dor. τετρώκονταTab.Heracl.1.20, al., SIG241.67 (Delph., iv B.C.), IG5(2).357.16 (Stymphalus, iii B.C.), 9(1).880.15 (Corc.), cf. τετρωκοντάλιτροσ and v. τεσσαρακοστόσ; once Dor. τεταράκονταIG4.823.63 (Troezen); Boeot. πετταράκοντα (q.v.): οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.:—
forty
, Il.2.524, etc. II.οἱ τ.
the Forty
, a body of justices who went round the Attic demes to hear all causes up to ten drachmae, Isoc. 15.237; also cases of assault, D.37.33: changed from Thirty to Forty after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, Arist.Ath.53.1.