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ἀμφίλεκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίλεκτος

Structure: ἀμφιλεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. discussed on all hands, doubtful
  2. disputatious, to quarrel for

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ πᾶσι ταὐτὸν καλὸν ἔφυ σοφόν θ’ ἅμα, οὐκ ἦν ἂν ἀμφίλεκτοσ ἀνθρώποισ ἔρισ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 9:1)
  • Ἀτρεὺσ γὰρ ἄρχων τῆσδε γῆσ, τούτου πατήρ, πατέρα Θυέστην τὸν ἐμόν, ὡσ τορῶσ φράσαι, αὑτοῦ δ’ ἀδελφόν, ἀμφίλεκτοσ ὢν κράτει, ἠνδρηλάτησεν ἐκ πόλεώσ τε καὶ δόμων. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:1)

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

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