ἀμφιδέξιος

English (LSJ)

ον,

   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.