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Woodhouse's English -> Greek dictionary gives "a space of ten years: chronos dekaetêros" (lit. ten-yearly time"), so I would suggest making it a neuter adjective and going with "pentekontaeteron".
Woodhouse's English -> Greek dictionary gives "a space of ten years: chronos dekaetêros" (lit. ten-yearly time"), so I would suggest making it a neuter adjective and going with "pentekontaeteron".
Thanks, man. Though, Pentekontaeteron is a bit unwieldy. I'll have to think about it. I might shorten it to Pentekon, since the people who are using it haven't spoken pure ancient Greek in a long, long time. But it's very good to know what the approximate, actual translation might be.
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