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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

  • κεῖται δ’ ἀμφήριστοσ, Ἀθηνόθεν, εἴτ’ ἀπὸ Νείλου ἦν γένοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3693)
  • Καὶ τάδε Κράσσοσ ἓξ μησὶν ἐργασάμενοσ ἀμφήριστοσ ἐκ τοῦδε αὐτίκα μάλα τῇ δόξῃ τῇ Πομπηίου γίνεται. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 14 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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