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English (LSJ)
ον,
A living a double life, esp. amphibious, νομή, of frogs, Batr.59; ἀ. στόμα Pl.Epigr.2, cf. Ax.368b; θήρ Man.4.23; of plants, Thphr.HP1.4.3; ἀμφίβιον, τό, = ἀλόη, Ps.-Dsc.3.22:—said by Thphr. (Fr.171.12) to have been first used by Democr. 2 metaph., of the soul, denizen of two worlds, Plot.4.8.4; of man, Hierocl.in CA23p.468M.; ὁ κατὰ τὴν ζωὴν κόσμος ἐστὶν οἷον ἀμφίβιον Dam.Pr.81, cf. 85; φύσις ἀ. ib.399, cf. 400; of the moon, ἄστρον ἀ. πρὸς νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν Max.Tyr.40.4; of Tiresias (who lived both as man and as woman), Luc.Astr.11.
German (Pape)
[Seite 136] doppellebig, auf dem Lande und im Wasser lebend, νόμος, doppelte Lebensweise, Batr. 59; nach Theophr. frg. 12, 12 zuerst von Demokrit gebraucht; Plat. Ax. 368 b; στόμα, des Frosches, Plat. 8 (VI, 43); τό, Amphibie, Plut. Symp. 2, 3, 2.
