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|mdlsjtxt=<br />prep. with [[genitive]], dat., and acc.—Radic. [[sense]], on [[both]] sides (cf. [[ἄμφω]], Lat. [[ambo]]), [[whereas]] [[περί]] [[properly]] [[means]] all [[round]].<br />A. c. gen.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Causal, [[about]], for, for the [[sake]] of a [[thing]], ἀμφὶ γυναικός Aesch.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[about]], i. e. [[concerning]] or of a [[thing]], ἀμφὶ φιλότητος ἀείδειν to [[sing]] [[about]] or of [[love]], Od.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[place]], [[about]], [[around]], ἀμφὶ τῆς πόλιος Hdt.<br />B. C. DAT.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of [[place]], on [[both]] sides of, [[about]], ἀμφὶ ὤμοις, στήθεσσι Hom.; [[likewise]], ἀμφὶ περὶ στήθεσσι Od.:—then, [[just]] like [[περί]], all [[round]], [[κρέα]] ἀμφὶ ὀβελοῖς ἔπειραν they [[fixed]] the [[meat]] [[round]], i. e. [[upon]], the spits, Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], [[about]], near, at, ἀμφὶ πύληισι Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[about]], [[regarding]], [[ἔρις]] ἀμφὶ μουσικῆι Hdt.; for the [[sake]] of, for, ἀμφ' Ἑλένηι μάχεσθαι Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> like Lat. [[prae]], ἀμφὶ τάρβει, ἀμφὶ φόβωι, [[prae]] pavore, for [[very]] [[fear]], Aesch., Eur.<br />C. C. ACC.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of [[place]], [[about]], [[around]], [[mostly]] with a [[sense]] of [[motion]], [[ἀμφί]] μιν [[φᾶρος]] βάλον Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[about]], near, ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα [[somewhere]] by the banks, ib.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of persons who are [[about]] one, οἱ ἀμφὶ Πρίαμον [[Priam]] and his [[train]], Il.; οἱ ἀμφὶ Jέρξεα his [[army]], Hdt.; in Attic, οἱ ἀμφὶ Πρωταγόραν the [[school]] of [[Protagoras]] or [[Protagoras]] [[himself]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> κλαίειν [[ἀμφί]] τινα to [[weep]] [[about]] or for one, Il.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> [[εἶναι]], διατρίβειν [[ἀμφί]] τι to be [[engaged]] [[about]] it, Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as a [[loose]] [[definition]] of [[time]], [[about]], Pind.; ἀμφὶ Πλειάδων [[δύσιν]] Aesch.:—so of Number, Lat. [[circiter]], ἀμφὶ τὰς [[δώδεκα]] μυριάδας [[about]] 120, 000, Xen.<br />D. WITHOUT CASE, as adv., on [[both]] sides, [[about]], [[around]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> = [[ἀμφίς]] A. 11, [[apart]], Hhymn.<br />E. IN COMPOS.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[about]], on [[both]] sides, as [[ἀμφίστομος]], = [[δίστομος]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> all [[round]], on all sides, as [[ἀμφιλαμβάνω]], [[ἀμφιλαφής]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Causal, for, for the [[sake]] of, as [[ἀμφιμάχομαι]].