ἀμφιδέξιος

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οὐκ ἐν τῷ πολλῷ τὸ εὖ, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ πολύgood is not found in plenty but plenty in good, quality matters more than quantity

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Full diacritics: ἀμφιδέξιος Medium diacritics: ἀμφιδέξιος Low diacritics: αμφιδέξιος Capitals: ΑΜΦΙΔΕΞΙΟΣ
Transliteration A: amphidéxios Transliteration B: amphidexios Transliteration C: amfideksios Beta Code: a)mfide/cios

English (LSJ)

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   A ambidextrous (cf. ἀμφαρίστερος), Hp.Aph.7.43 (wrongly expl. by Glaucias ap.Erot., S.E.M.7.50), Arist.EN1134b34; = περιδέξιος, Hippon.83. Adv. -ίως, παίζειν Polem.Hist. 45.    2 ready to take with either hand, i.e. taking either of two things, indifferent, Trag.Adesp.355 ( = Com.Adesp.360); so ἀμφιδεξίως ἔχει it is indifferent, A.Fr.266.    3 two-edged, σίδηρος E.Hipp. 780.    b metaph., double-meaning, ambiguous, χρηστήριον Hdt. 5.92.έ, cf. Luc.JTr.43.    4 on either hand, with both hands, ἀ. ἀκμαῖς with both hands at once, S.OT1243; ἐρείσατ' . . πλευρὸν ἀμφιδέξιον ἐμφύντε τῷ φύσαντι OC1112.    5 ἀμφιδέξια, τά, bracelets, Hsch.: sg. ἀμφίδεξιν (sic) IG3.238a.

German (Pape)

[Seite 137] 1) auf beiden Händen rechts, beide Hände gleich gebrauchend, Arist. Eth. 5, 7; Hippocr.; sehr geschickt, χεῖρες Aesch. Tel. frg. 218; ἀμφιδεξίως ἔχει, von beiden Seiten ist es recht, frg. 244. Bei Soph. O. R. 1242 sind ἀμφιδέξιοι ἀκμαί beide Hände, wie O. C. 1114 πλευρὸν ἀμφ. beide Seiten. – 2) übh. zweiseitig, χρηστήριον, zweideutig, Her. 5, 92; σίδηρος, zweischneidig, Eur. Hipp. 780.