τεσσαράκοντα

A. v. τεσσαρακοστός; once Dor. τεταράκοντα IG 4.823.63 (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.