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ἀμφήριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφήριστος

Structure: ἀμφηριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ri/zw

Sense

  1. contested on both sides

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ φάλαγγεσ, ἀμφοτέρων τῶν κεράτων αὐταῖσ ἐψιλωμένων, ἔμενον ἀκέραιοι κατὰ μέσον τὸ πεδίον, ἀμφηρίστουσ ἔχουσαι τὰσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἐλπίδασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 85 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. contested on both sides

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

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