Bible Lexicons

δεύτερος, α, ον, second, (perh. from δύο with Comp. termination):

I

1. next in Order (with a notion of Time), in Il. (not in Od.) of one who comes in second in a race, 23.265; δ. ἐλθεῖν 22.207; δ. αὖτ'.. προΐει.. ἔγχος next, 20.273, etc.; οὔ μ' ἔτι δ. ὧδε ἵξετ' ἄχος no second grief, i.e. none hereafter like this, 23.46; as Comp., c. gen., ἐμεῖο δεύτεροι after my time, ib. 248; σοὶ δ' οὐκέτι δ. ἔσται no second choice will be allowed thee, Hes. Op. 34; in Att. and Trag. with Art., ὁ δ. S. OC 1315, etc.; αἱ δ. πως φροντίδες σοφώτεραι second thoughts are wisest, E. Hipp. 436: prov., δ. πλοῦς the next best way, Pl. Phd. 99d, etc.; ὁ δ. πλοῦς ἐστι δήπου λεγόμενος, ἂν ἀποτύχῃ τις οὐρίου, κώπαισι πλεῖν Men. 241.

2. of Time, next, later, δ. χρόνῳ in after time, Pi. O. 1.43; δ. ἡμέρῃ on the next day, Hdt. 1.82; δ. ἔτεϊ τούτων in the year after this, Id. 6.46: neut. as Adv., δεύτερον αὖ, αὖτε, αὖτις, a second time, Il. 3.332, 191, Od. 9.354; ἐν τᾷ δ. ἐκκλησίᾳ SIG 644.20: with the Art., τὸ δ. Sapph. Supp. 4.11, Hdt. 1.79, A. Ag. 1082, X. Cyr. 2.2.1: also pl., Hdt. 3.53, 9.3; τὰ δ. κινδυνεύσοντας about to run the next dangers, Th. 6.78; later, ἐκ δευτέρου for the second time, Mark 14:72, Dsc. 5.87.10; ἐκ δευτέρης Babr. 114.5, cf. PStrassb. 100.22 (ii B. C.): regul. Adv. δευτέρως Pl. Lg. 955e, Sallust. 18, etc. ὁ δ. the younger, BGU 592.10 (ii A. D.).

II

1. in Order or Rank (without any notion of Time), second, δ.μετ' ἐκεῖνον Hdt. 1.31, cf. S. Ph. 1442, etc.; πολὺ δ. Id. OC 1228 (lyr.); πολὺ δ. μετά τι very much behind, Th. 2.97; μετὰ τὸ πλουτεῖν δ. Antiph. 144.9: c. gen., δ. οὐδενός second to none, Hdt. 1.23, Plb. 31.27.16; δ. παιδὸς σῆς E. Tr. 618; πάντα τἄλλα δεύτερ' ἦν τῶν προσδοκιῶν D. 19.24; πρὸς τὰ χρήματα θνητοῖσι τἄλλα δεύτερ' S. Fr. 354.5; τὰ ἄλλα πάντα δ. τε καὶ ὕστερα λεκτέον Pl. Phlb. 59c; logically or metaphysically posterior, πᾶν πλῆθος δ. ἐστι τοῦ ἑνός Procl. Inst. 5, cf. 36, Dam. Pr. 126, al.; δεύτερ' ἡγεῖσθαι think quite secondary, S. OC 351; δεύτερον ἄγειν, δεύτερα ποιεῖσθαι, Luc. Symp. 9, Plu. 2.162e; ἐν δευτέρῳ τίθεσθαι Id. Fab. 24, cf. Jul. Or. 8.242b; ἱερὸν δ. of the second class, OGI 56.59 (iii B. C.), etc.

2. the second of two, δ. αὐτή herself with another, Hdt. 4.113, cf. AB 89; ἑπτὰ δ. σοφοί a second seven sages, Euphro 1.12; εἷς καὶ δ. unus et alter, Hdn.Gr. 2.934; εἷς ἢ δ. Jul. Or. 6.190d; ἕν τι.. ἢ δεύτερον D.Chr. 33.7; δ. καὶ τρίτος two or three, Plb. 26.1.1.; neut. as Adv., ἅπαξ καὶ δεύτερον once or twice, Jul. ad Ath. 278c.

3. δ. ἀριθμός number whose prime factors are odd, Nicom. Ar. 1.12.

III as Subst.,

1. τὰ δ., = δευτερεῖα, the second prize or place, Il. 23.538; τὰ δ. φέρεσθαι Hdt. 8.104.

2. after-birth, Dsc. 1.48,50.

3. δευτέρα σαββάτου (sc. ἡμέρα) second day of the week, LXX Psalms 47:1-9(48) tit.