τέσσᾰρεσ, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά, gen. ων: dat. τέσσαρσι(ν) Th.2.21, Act.Ap.12.4, etc.; poet. τέτρᾰσιHes.Fr.188, Pi.O.8.68, al., and in late Prose, as LXXJd.9.34, Str.13.1.3, Hermog.Meth.29, Alex.Aphr.in Top.208.12,in Sens.54.18, PSI10.1126.9 (iii A.D.), v.l. in Act.Ap.11.5 (cod. D), and in good codd. of Arist.IA704a11, al., Theol.Ar.19, etc.; also τέταρσιSIG729.3 (Delph., i B.C.), PSI9.1028.10 (i A.D.):— Att. τέττᾰρεσ, τέττᾰρα, dat. τέτταρσινIsoc.12.3; also τάρων (v. τάρεσ) for τεττάρων; Phocian dat. τεττάροισIG9(1).32.78 (Stiris, ii B.C.):— Ion. and later Gr. τέσσερεσ, τέσσερα, SIG57.25 (Milet., v B.C.), Schwyzer 289.120 (Rhodian, ii B.C.), etc. (dat. τέσσερσιHdt.6.41, τεσσέρασινSIG633.98 (Milet., ii B.C.)), but τέσσαρεσ in Hom., and Schwyzer707 B 4 (Ephesus, vi B.C.), etc.: codd. of LXX have τέσσαρεσ (nom. and acc.), τεσσάρων, τέσσαρσι, but τέσσερας, τεσσεράκοντα; since however τέσσερα(σ) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from Ion., are not common in Papyri before ii A.D., the LXX autographs prob. had τέσσαρα(σ) and τεσσαράκοντα; the form τέσσερα(σ) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:— Dor. τέτορεσ, τέτορα, Hes.Op. 698, Phoc.3, Simon.91, Epich.149, SIG240I8 (Delph., iv B.C.), al., Theoc.14.16:— Ep. (prob. Aeol.) πίσῠρεσ[ῐ]Od.5.70, 16.249, A.R. 2.1110, Nic.Th.182; acc. πίσῠρασOd.22.111, Il.15.680, al., Call.Dian. 105, IGRom.4.360.26 (Pergam., ii A.D.); gen. πισύρωνDam.Isid.290 (metrical?), prob. in Hsch.; dat. πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αισ, Nonn.D.16.119, 38.176, 236, 39.377, AP14.7.4: Aeol. also πέσῠρεσ, neut. πέσῠραEpigr.Gr.988.6 (Balbilla); and πέσσῠρεσ, πέσσῠρα, Hsch.:— Boeot. πέττᾰρεσ, α (q.v.):—
four
, Od.9.335, etc.; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of
the fourth
, Damox.2.55, etc.; τὰ τέσσαρα
the four simple bodies
of Empedocles, Plot.6.2.2;
the four kinds of quality
or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, Id.6.1.10;
the four cardinal principles
of Epicurus (cf. τετραφάρμακοσ), Phld.Herc.1251.11. (Cf. Skt.