[1] The original sense of the adjective di/paltos (from di- and pa/llw) would be "fully armed", in reference to the double spears an Homeric warrior ordinarily carried, according to the literary and archaeological evidence collected by Lorimer (below). But uncertainty as to the meaning is evident in antiquity itself, as the Suda confirms. It is possible that this kind of compound had changed its sense from a literal into a metaphorical one. *di/paltos is said of a thunderbolt in Euripides, Trojan Women 1103; the similar tri/paltos is referred to sufferings in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 990 tripa/ltwn phma/twn "manifold pains" (but the passage is dubious). The usage of di/paltos by Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 323 di/palta polemi/wn ci/fh "the two swords brandished by enemies", according to Kamerbeek, is a catachresis for "wielded by two men".
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 408-9 (web address 1). The scholia there attribute the gloss panti\ sqe/nei to Didymus, the alternative one to the lesser-known grammarian Pius. Didymus' interpretation is preferred by Kamerbeek, who suggests a sense of the passage close to Latin ictibus ingeminans.