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ἀμφίβληστρον

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίβληστρον

Etym.: a)mfiba/llw

Sense

  1. anything thrown round
  2. a casting-net, the garment thrown like a net over
  3. a fetter, bond
  4. encompassment

Examples

  • διὰ τοῦτο ἀμφιβαλεῖ τὸ ἀμφίβληστρον αὐτοῦ καὶ διὰ παντὸσ ἀποκτέννειν ἔθνη οὐ φείσεται. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 1:17)
  • εἶχε δὲ χερσὶν ἰχθύσιν ἀμφίβληστρον ἀπορρίψοντι ἐοικώσ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 22:6)
  • Ἀντιφάνησ δ’ ἐν τῷ Προβλήματί φησιν ἰχθύσιν ἀμφίβληστρον ἀνήρ πολλοῖσ περιβάλλειν οἰηθεὶσ μεγάλῃ δαπάνῃ μίαν εἵλκυσε πέρκην καὶ ταύτην ψευσθείσ, ὁ ἄλλην κεστρεὺσ ἴσον αὐτῇ ἦγεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 721)
  • κοὔπω τοιοῦτον οὔτ’ ἄκοιτισ ἡ Διὸσ προύθηκεν οὔθ’ ὁ στυγνὸσ Εὐρυσθεὺσ ἐμοί, οἱο͂ν τόδ’ ἡ δολῶπισ Οἰνέωσ κόρη καθῆψεν ὤμοισ τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ Ἐρινύων ὑφαντὸν ἀμφίβληστρον, ᾧ διόλλυμαι. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode3)
  • μέμνησο δ’ ἀμφίβληστρον ὡσ ἐκαίνισαν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode10)

Synonyms

  1. encompassment

Related

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

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