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ἀμφήκης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφήκης ἀμφήκες

Structure: ἀμφηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/

Sense

  1. two-edged
  2. that will cut both ways, ambiguous

Examples

  • παίσω γὰρ ἧπαρ τοὐμὸν ἀμφήκει ξίφει. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:13)
  • ἆρ’ ἐκείνου ὃν τῷ Λυδῷ ὁ Πύθιοσ ἔχρησεν, ὃσ ἀκριβῶσ ἀμφήκησ ἦν καὶ διπρόσωποσ, οἱοῖ́ εἰσι τῶν Ἑρμῶν ἔνιοι, διττοὶ καὶ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ὅμοιοι πρὸσ ὁπότερον ἂν αὐτῶν μέροσ ἐπιστραφῇσ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 43:3)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ’ ἔτι, οἱο͂σ ἐμοὶ τρέφεται τοῖσδ’ ἐνὶ δώμασι παῖσ, ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ λάμπων, πρόβολοσ ἐμόσ, σωτὴρ δόμοισ, ἐχθροῖσ βλάβη, λυσανίασ πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτ’ ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ ῥιπτέσθω μὲν πυρὸσ ἀμφήκησ βόστρυχοσ, αἰθὴρ δ’ ἐρεθιζέσθω βροντῇ σφακέλῳ τ’ ἀγρίων ἀνέμων· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests3)
  • ἐμοὶ δὲ μίμνει σχισμὸσ ἀμφήκει δορί. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 63)

Synonyms

  1. two-edged

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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