ἀμφιδέξιος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[ambidextrous]] (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> [[ready to take with either hand]], i.e. [[taking either of two things]], [[indifferent]], <span class="bibl">Trag.Adesp.355</span> ( = <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>360); so <b class="b3">ἀμφιδεξίως ἔχει</b> it is [[indifferent]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>266</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[two-edged]], 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., [[double-meaning]], [[ambiguous]], 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> [[on either hand]], [[with both hands]], <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀκμαῖς</b> with [[both]] hands [[at once]], <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> [[bracelets]], Hsch.: sg. [[ἀμφίδεξιν]] (sic) <span class="title">IG</span>3.238a.</span>