Ἀμφίπολις
πέτρην κοιλαίνει ρανὶς ὕδατος ἐνδελεχείῃ → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
Spanish (DGE)
-εως, ἡ
Anfípolis
1 ciu. griega en la desembocadura del Estrimón, colonia de Atenas, actualmente Neochori, Th.4.102, X.HG 4.3.1, D.1.8, Isoc.8.22, Arist.Pol.1306a2, Hell.Oxy.7.4, Nicaenet.4.2.
2 ciu. de Siria, junto al Éufrates, anteriormente llamada Tápsaco, St.Byz.
English (Strong)
from the base of ἀμφότερος and πόλις; a city surrounded by a river; Amphipolis, a place in Macedonia: Amphipolis.
English (Thayer)
(εως, ἡ, Amphipolis, the metropolis of Macedonia Prima (cf. B. D. under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Macedonia); so called, because the Strymon flowed around it (Thucydides 4,102) formerly called ἐννέα ὁδοί (Thucydides 1,100): B. D.).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Ἀμφίπολις: εως ἡ Амфиполь (город во Фракии, на вост. берегу Стримона) Thuc., Xen.
