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ἀμφιβολία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιβολία

Etym.: from a)mfi/bolos

Sense

  1. the state of being attacked on both sides

Examples

  • ἐν μεγάλῃ οὖν καθεστήκειν ἀμφιβολίᾳ, οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὅ τι χρησαίμην ἐμαυτῷ· (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 3:7)
  • περὶ Θεόγνιδοσ καὶ τῆσ κατ’ αὐτὸν ταύτησ ἱστορίασ ἀμφιβολία πολλὴ ἐγένετο τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section11)
  • καὶ τότε μὲν ἐδόκει καὶ ἀμφιβολία τισ εἶναι, καίτοι σαφῶσ τἀνθρώπου εἰρηκότοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:2)
  • εἰ δ’ ἔστι καὶ τοῖσ νικήσασιν ἐπὶ τῷ μέλλοντι φόβοσ ἢ δέοσ ἢ ἀμφιβολία, πόσῳ ταῦτα τοῖσ νενικημένοισ πλεονάζειν ἀνάγκη. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 5:2)
  • Ἀμφιβολία δέ ἐστι λέξισ δύο ἢ καὶ πλείονα πράγματα σημαίνουσα λεκτικῶσ καὶ κυρίωσ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ἔθοσ, ὥσθ’ ἅμα τὰ πλείονα ἐκδέξασθαι κατὰ ταύτην τὴν λέξιν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 62:3)

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

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