[1] Despite this initial gloss (similarly in ps.-Zonaras), the verb dekateu/ein, as the entry goes on to show, properly means to impose a tithe (on someone else). See also delta 182 (and delta 186).
[2] The states that sided with the Persians against their fellow Greeks during the Persian invasion of 481-479 BCE.
[3] Delphian Apollo.
[4] A loose approximation of Diodorus Siculus 11.3.3.
[5] At this point the Suda switches from the verb to the ordinal adjective "tenth." The quotation is Aristophanes, Birds 494 (and refers to the naming ceremony of a baby ten days after birth; see alpha 1722 and generally OCD(4) p.995, under 'Names, personal, Greek'). This and all the subsequent quotations are taken from the scholia there. It would seem that the Suda ought to have a separate entry for deka/th.
[6] Euripides fr.5 Jouan and van Looy.
[7] That is, both literally picked up by the father and thereby symbolically acknowledged by him.
[8] Aristotle, History of Animals 7.12 (web address 1), adding "on the grounds that they are more confident in its survival then." Aristotle refers not to the tenth day naming ceremony but to a seventh day ceremony called the Amphidromia, the “Running-Around,” in which the father took up the child and ran around the hearth, thus acknowledging and accepting it. See alpha 1722; Flacelière (below); and OCD(above).