A.“ἡμίσεος” Hdt.2.126, Th.2.78,4.83, X.Oec.18.8, Pl.Smp.205e, IG22.1612.267, D.23.213, etc. (ἡμίσεως is sts. a v.l., as in Th. ll. cc., and is found in later writers, as Dsc.2.70); also as fem., Th.4.104; later contr. “ἡμίσους” D.H.4.17, Plu.Mar.34, etc. (as fem., LXX 3 Ki.16.9): nom. and acc. pl. masc., Ion. ἡμίσεες, -εας, Il. 21.7, Hdt.9.51, Att. “ἡμίσεις” Th.3.20, Pl.Tht.154c (ἡμίσεας is preferred by Phryn.PSp.73B.): neut. pl. “ἡμίσεα” Th.4.16, Pl.R.438c, later “ἡμίση” D.36.36 (cod. S), al., IG22.1678.23, Thphr.Char.30.16, IG12 (5).872.107 (Tenos), SIG2588.4(Delos, ii B.C.), etc.: Ion. fem. “ἡμίσεα^” Hdt.5.111 (hyperion. “-σέη” Luc.Syr.D.14), acc. pl. “-έας” Hdt.8.27, also acc. sg. “ἡμίσεαν” IG2.1055.16, 1059.14, gen. “ἡμισέας” Pl.Men.83c: ἥμυσυς (assim.), Rev.Phil.54.192 (Erythrae, v B.C.), IG22.43A45 (iv B.C.), PEleph.20.40(iv B.C.), IG11(2).161A23(Delos, iii B.C.), UPZ 54.6(ii B.C.), etc.: neut. ἥμισον , τό, Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (Locr., v B.C.), SIG1011.7 (Chalcedon, iii/ii B.C.), ib.671 A13 (Delph., ii B.C.), BGU 183.41 (i A.D.): pl. “ἥμισα” SIG56.7 (Argos, v B.C.); also ἥμισσον , τό, ib.306.14 (Arc., iv B.C.), 1009.20 (Ephesus, iii/ii B.C.): pl. ἥμισσα ib. 240P (Delph., iv B.C.): acc. pl. “τοὺς ἡμίσους” Not.Arch.4.20 (Cyrene, Aug.):—half,
I. as Adj., ἡμίσεες λαοί half the people, “ἡ. δ᾽ ἄρα λαοὶ ἐρητύοντο . . ἡ. δ᾽ ἀναβάντες ἐλαύνομεν” Od.3.155 sq., cf. Il.21.7 (elsewh. Hom. uses only neut. ἥμισυ as Subst. (v. infr. 11)); “τοὺς ἡμίσεας ἀποστέλλειν” Hdt.9.51, cf. Th.3.20, X.Cyr.2.16, etc.; ἥμισυς λόγος half the tale, A.Eu.428 (λόγου cod. Med.); “τὸ ἥμισυ τεῖχος” Th.2.78; “ὁ ἥ. ἀριθμός” Pl.Lg.946a: c. gen., like a Comp., τὸ ὕψος ἥμισυ ἐτελέσθη οὗ διενοεῖτο half of what he intended, Th.1.93: metaph., “οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἥμισυς ἑαυτοῦ γένοιτο πρὸς ἀρετήν” Pl.Lg.647d (οὐ δι᾽ ἥμισυν stands for οὐ διήμ. 'half-and-half', ib.806c).
2. in Prose also with the Subst. in gen. and giving its gender and number to “ἥμισυς, τῶν νήσων τὰς ἡμισέας” Hdt.2.10; “τῶν ἀνδραπόδων τὰ ἡμίσεα” Id.6.23; αἱ ἡμίσειαι τῶν νεῶν half of the ships, Th.8.8; “οἱ ἡμίσεις τῶν ἄρτων” X.Cyr.4.5.4; “ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ” Pl.Phd.104a; “τοῦ χρόνου” D.20.8: abs., οἱ ἡ. half of them, Th.3.20.
II. as Subst. in neut., ἥ. τιμῆς, ἐνάρων, ἀρετῆς, Il.9.616, 17.231, Od.17.322; τὸ μὲν . . , τὸ δ᾽ ἥ. Il.13.565; “πλέον ἥ. παντός” Hes.Op.40, Pl.R.466c; “ὑπὲρ ἥ. πάντων” X.Cyr.3.3.47; “ἥ. οὗ δεῖ” Pl.Phd.77c, etc.; ἐν ἡμίσει τῆς νυκτός at midnight, LXXJd.16.3: usu. c. Art., “τὸ ἥ. τοῦ στρατοῦ” Th.4.83, etc.; also “τὤμισυ” Hes.Op.559, Schwyzer701 (Erythrae, v B.C.); “θἤμισυ” Ar.Lys.116: indecl., ἀπὸ τοῦ ἥ. LXXEx.30.15; τῷ ἥ. φυλῆς ib.Nu.32.33: pl., “τῆς χορείας τὰ ἡμίσεα” Pl.Lg.672e; “ἄρτων ἡμίσεα” X.An.1.9.26; ῥαφανίδων τὰ ἡ. Thphr.l.c.: after Numerals, “ἐν δυοῖν καὶ ἡμίσει ἡμέρας” IG22.1673.73; “δεκατεττάρων καὶ ἡμίσους” Str.2.5.39; “μνῶν . . δώδεκα καὶ ἡμίσους” D.H.4.17; “τετραποδίαν μίαν καὶ ἥμισυ” IG 12.373.28; without “καί, μυριάδων ἑπτὰ ἡμίσους” Plu.Mar.34: indecl., “τριῶν ἥμισυ σταδίων” Str.8.6.21, cf. PTeb.110.5 (i B.C.), Plu.Cat.Mi. 44, etc.: as Adv., “ἥ. μὲν νύμφην . . , ἥ. δ᾽ αὖτε ὄφιν” Hes.Th.298, cf. Pi.N.10.87: so in pl., “τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα φιλόπονος, τὰ δὲ ἡ. ἄπονος” Pl.R. 535d: with Preps., οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἥ. not half, Ar.Th.452: regul. Adv. ἡμισέως half-done, Pl.R.601c.
