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ἀμφινεικής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφινεικής ἀμφινεικές

Structure: ἀμφινεικη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: nei=kos

Sense

  1. contested on all sides, eagerly wooed

Examples

  • ποθουμένᾳ γὰρ φρενὶ πυνθάνομαι τὰν ἀμφινεικῆ Δηιάνειραν ἀεί, οἱᾶ́ τιν’ ἄθλιον ὄρνιν, οὔποτ’ εὐνάζειν ἀδακρύτων βλεφάρων πόθον, ἀλλ’ εὔμναστον ἀνδρὸσ δεῖμα τρέφουσαν ὁδοῦ ἐνθυμίοισ εὐναῖσ ἀνανδρώτοισι τρύχεσθαι, κακὰν δύστανον ἐλπίζουσαν αἶσαν. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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