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Ἀμφίπολις

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Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c

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.).