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ἀμφίβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίβολος ἀμφίβολη ἀμφίβολον

Structure: ἀμφιβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)mfiba/llw

Sense

  1. put round, encompassing
  2. attacked on both or all sides, between two fires
  3. hitting at both ends, double-pointed
  4. doubtful, ambiguous, as doubtful, in doubt

Examples

  • κλωστοῦ δ’ ἀμφιβόλοισ λίνοιο ναὸσ ὡσεὶ σκάφοσ κελαινόν, εἰσ ἕδρανα λάινα δάπεδά τε φόνια πατρί‐ δι Παλλάδοσ θέσαν θεᾶσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • καὶ σὺ καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο ὁρ́α ὅσου δεῖ τοῦ χρόνου, οὗ ἑκὼν παρῆκα δεδιὼσ μὴ σὺ ἀγανακτήσῃσ, καίτοι τό γε μέγιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ ἀναγκαιότατον ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ, λέγω δὴ τοῖσ ἀδήλοισ τε καὶ ἀμφιβόλοισ, ἓν τοῦτό ἐστιν, οἶμαι· (Lucian, 139:7)
  • τρίτον μὴ ἀμφιβόλοισ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 5 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. put round

  2. doubtful

Related

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

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