[Meaning] the middle of three brothers. But a)mfi/kouros [is] she whom[1] men would seize on both sides.
*)amfi/koros: o( me/sos tw=n triw=n a)delfw=n. *)amfi/kouros de\, h(\n e(kate/rwqen a)/ndres perila/bwsin.
The first part of this double entry is also in
Hesychius; the second part is in
Photius,
Lexicon alpha1341 -- but glossing there the present primary headword. Note also
Hesychius s.v.
a)mfi/kouron, glossed
a)mfote/rwqen kekarme/non ("cut/shorn on both sides").
Unattested outside lexicography,
amphikoros is accepted by LSJ as a term which does (pace
Photius) mean the middle of three brothers. LSJ
a)mfi/kouros has three parts: a tree-trunk lopped of its branches (as in a fragment of
Sophocles); "shorn on both sides" (
Photius,
Hesychius); "seized by men on either side" (Suda).
[1] Or: something (feminine) that.
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