Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὑπὲρ ἀμφοτέρων ποιεῖται τὸν λόγον τὰσ δαπάνασ οὐχ ἃσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀπέφηνε γενέσθαι λέγων καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀμφιβόλων τὰσ πίστεισ ἀποδιδούσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 26 1:1)
  • οὐ ῥητορικὴν θεωρίαν ἐχούσασ ἀλλὰ διαλεκτικήν, ὡσ ἴσασιν οἱ τὰσ βύβλουσ ἀνεγνωκότεσ, ὑπὲρ ἀξιωμάτων συντάξεωσ ἀληθῶν τε καὶ ψευδῶν καὶ δυνατῶν καὶ ἀδυνάτων ἐνδεχομένων τε καὶ μεταπιπτόντων καὶ ἀμφιβόλων καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν τοιουτοτρόπων, οὐδεμίαν οὔτ’ ὠφέλειαν οὔτε χρείαν τοῖσ πολιτικοῖσ λόγοισ συμβαλλομένασ εἰσ γοῦν ἡδονὴν καὶ κάλλοσ ἑρμηνείασ, ὧν δεῖ στοχάζεσθαι τὴν σύνθεσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 461)
  • Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ ἀμφιβόλων τὰ πρῶτα γενομένων τῶν Μακεδόνων πέμπει Παρμενίων παῤ Ἀλέξανδρον σπουδῇ ἀγγελοῦντα, ὅτι ἐν ἀγῶνι ξυνέχεται τὸ κατὰ σφᾶσ καὶ βοηθεῖν δεῖ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 15 1:1)

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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