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Headword:
Amphoin
Adler number: alpha,1793
Translated headword: of both
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
a)mfoi=n means the same as]
a)mfote/rwn.[1]
"Many men were caught between the two sides and utterly destroyed."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
a)mfoi=n podoi=n ["with both feet"], meaning with all one's might.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "we have flown away from our homeland with both feet."[3] From a metaphor of the birds, with both wings; or from the ships which sail "with both feet" when running before the wind;[4] or meaning perfectly, using in anticipation the metaphor of the birds.
Amphoin: amphoterôn. mesoi de lêphthentes amphoin polloi diephtharêsan. kai Amphoin podoin, anti tou panti sthenei. Aristophanês Ornisin: aniptameth' ek tês patridos amphoin podoin. apo metaphoras tôn orneôn, amphoin pteroin: ê ek tôn neôn, hai ouriodromousai amphoin toin podoin pleousin: ê anti tou teleôs, prolêptikôs têi tôn orneôn chrômenos metaphorai.
Notes:
The headword is genitive (also dative) case, dual number, of
a)/mfw; see
alpha 1790. It is possibly, though not necessarily, extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] So already (but at greater length)
Hesychius alpha4145.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Birds 35 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
nu 450,
sigma 33.
[4] "In a ship,
podes are the two lower corners of the sail, or the ropes fastened thereto, by which the sails are tightened or slackened." LSJ
pou/s II 2. See also
omicron 951.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; military affairs; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 August 2000@01:44:32.
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