δίδυμος

A. double, twofold, Od. 19.227, etc.; διδύμαιν χειροῖν S. El. 206 (lyr.): also in sg., χερὶ διδύμᾳ with both hands, Pi. P. 2.9; δ. ἅλς, i. e. the Pontus and Bosporus, S. Ant. 967 (lyr.); δ. γένος AP 7.72 (Men.); δ. ξύλον forked, LXX Jo. 8.29; τὸ γλυκύ μοι δ., of a wife, IG 14.1974.

II. twin, δ. κασίγνητος Pi. N. 1.36; δ. τέκνων ἄριστα S. OC 1693 (lyr.); δ. τέκεα E. Hel. 220 (lyr.).

III. Subst., δίδυμοι twins, Il. 23.641, Hdt. 5.41: of the Twins in the zodiac, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.8, Arat. 147, IG 14.1307; also δίδυμα,τά, Hdt. 6.52; δύο διδύμω E. Or. 1401 (lyr.).

2. the testicles, LXX De. 25.11, AP 5.125 (Phld.): sg., Herophil. ap. Gal. UP 14.11.

3. ovaries, Herophil. l. c., Sor. 1.12.