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δι^χο-τόμος , ον,
A.cutting in two, Ammon.p.44V.: but,
II. proparox., διχότομος, ον, cut in half, divided equally, “μυκτήρ” Arist. HA492b17; δ. σελήνη the half-moon, Id.Pr.911b36, Aristarch.Sam. Hyp.3, Gem.9.8, prob. in Plu.2.929f; “σελήνης σύμβολον τὸ δ.” Porph. ap.Eus.PE3.11; μέχρι διχοτόμου till the second quarter, Antyll. ap. Orib.9.3.2; κατ᾽ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς διχοτόμους (sc. φάσεις) at the first and third quarters, Ptol.Alm.5.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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