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ἀμφίθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίθυρος ἀμφίθυρᾱ ἀμφίθυρον

Structure: ἀμφιθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. with double entrance
  2. a hall

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

  • καὶ μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν ἐκείνου τὸν ἀμφίθυρον οἶκον, ὃν κεκλεισμένον αὐτὸσ συνεῖχεν, ὥσπερ ὄντωσ ἐν αὐτῷ τιθασεύων καθειργμένον τὸν πόλεμον, ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ἀναπετάσαντεσ αἵματοσ καὶ νεκρῶν τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐνέπλησαν· (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 4 6:2)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ διαδρὰσ ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ ἀμφιθύρου οὔσησ, ἐν ᾗ ἐφυλάσσετο ὡσ ἀπολούμενοσ, διῆγεν ἐν Μεγάροισ. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 9:1)
  • οἶκον μὲν ὁρᾷσ τόνδ’ ἀμφίθυρον πετρίνησ κοίτησ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, anapests1)
  • ὠκυτέρα μαλακᾶσ ἀπὸ δίφρακοσ ἔδραμε τήνα ἰθὺ δι’ ἀμφιθύρω καὶ δικλίδοσ, ᾇ πόδεσ ἆγον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 43)
  • ἐκείνου δὲ διαλεγομένου Θεόγνιδι ἔμπειροσ γὰρ ὢν ἐτύγχανον τῆσ οἰκίασ, καὶ ᾔδη ὅτι ἀμφίθυροσ εἰή ἐδόκει μοι ταύτῃ πειρᾶσθαι σωθῆναι, ἐνθυμουμένῳ ὅτι, ἐὰν μὲν λάθω, σωθήσομαι, ἐὰν δὲ ληφθῶ, ἡγούμην μέν, εἰ Θέογνισ εἰή πεπεισμένοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Δαμνίππου χρήματα λαβεῖν, οὐδὲν ἧττον ἀφεθήσεσθαι, εἰ δὲ μή, ὁμοίωσ ἀποθανεῖσθαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. with double entrance

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

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