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Headword: Amphotera
Adler number: alpha,1786
Translated headword: both sides
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning on both sides. Thucydides [sc. uses the word].[1]
[sc. Also attested is the adjective] a)mfoterode/cios ["ambidextrous"]: "but he who has the left [hand] instead of a right has it weaker." Search under du/sergos.[2]
Greek Original:
Amphotera: anti tou kata amphotera. Thoukudidês. Amphoterodexios: ho de tên laian anti dexias echôn, arrôstoteran echei autên. zêtei en tôi dusergos.
Notes:
The first part of this entry is also in Photius.
[1] Thucydides 1.13.5 does have this neuter plural (web address 1).
[2] delta 1619 (du/sergon).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 August 2000@23:54:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; cosmetics) on 5 March 2001@06:02:25.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 28 July 2002@07:05:41.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 March 2005@13:06:17.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and link) on 20 July 2011@10:35:11.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 22 February 2012@03:51:50.
David Whitehead on 19 July 2012@09:37:11.
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