ἀμφιδέξιος: Difference between revisions

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|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">ambidextrous</b> (cf. [[ἀμφαρίστερος]]), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>7.43</span> (wrongly expl. by Glaucias ap.Erot., <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>7.50</span>), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1134b34</span>; = [[περιδέξιος]], <span class="bibl">Hippon.83</span>. Adv. -ίως, παίζειν <span class="bibl">Polem.Hist. 45</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">ready to take with either hand</b>, i.e. <b class="b2">taking either of two things, indifferent</b>, <span class="bibl">Trag.Adesp.355</span> ( = <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>360); so <b class="b3">ἀμφιδεξίως ἔχει</b> it is <b class="b2">indifferent</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>266</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">two-edged</b>, σίδηρος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span> 780</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> metaph., <b class="b2">double-meaning, ambiguous</b>, χρηστήριον <span class="bibl">Hdt. 5.92</span>.έ, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">JTr.</span>43</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">on either hand, with both hands</b>, <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀκμαῖς</b> with <b class="b2">both</b> hands <b class="b2">at once</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1243</span>; ἐρείσατ' . . πλευρὸν ἀμφιδέξιον ἐμφύντε τῷ φύσαντι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>1112</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b3">ἀμφιδέξια, τά,</b> <b class="b2">bracelets</b>, Hsch.: sg. <b class="b3">ἀμφίδεξιν</b> (sic) <span class="title">IG</span>3.238a.</span>

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