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Headword:
Amphiboloi
Adler number: alpha,1707
Translated headword: surrounded, in doubt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] being hit from all sides; or at a loss, constrained by different lines of reasoning in ignorance of [how to make] the choice and whether to do this or that.[1]
Arrian [writes]: "the Mardians, already surrounded on both sides and under fire from those advancing and under pressure from those attacking in the rear, were dying."[2]
And elsewhere: "but Pamprepios, seen [to be] in doubt about these things, soon conceded."[3]
Greek Original:Amphiboloi: pantachothen ballomenoi: ê aporoumenoi, diaphorois sunechomenoi logismois agnoiai tou hairetou kai eite touto eite ekeino poiêsousin. Arrianos: hoi de Mardoi hekaterôthen êdê amphiboloi gignomenoi kai hupo tôn anabainontôn paiomenoi kai hupo tôn kata nôtou epithemenôn ôthoumenoi, apethnêskon. kai authis: ho de Pamprepios toutois amphibolos ophtheis, brachu pareôrato.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica, and cf. the
scholia to
Thucydides 4.32.2, where the (plural) headword occurs.
[2] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 86 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F119a). For Arrian on the Mardoi -- a Caspian tribe -- see also
mu 191 and
mu 192.
[3]
Damascius Life of Isidore fr. 300 Zintzen (172 Asmus).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 August 2000@11:45:06.
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