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Headword:
*)amfoi=n
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.
*)amfoi=n: a)mfote/rwn. me/soi de\ lhfqe/ntes a)mfoi=n polloi\ diefqa/rhsan. kai\ *)amfoi=n podoi=n, a)nti\ tou= panti\ sqe/nei. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin: a)nipta/meq' e)k th=s patri/dos a)mfoi=n podoi=n. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n o)rne/wn, a)mfoi=n pteroi=n: h)\ e)k tw=n new=n, ai(\ ou)riodromou=sai a)mfoi=n toi=n podoi=n ple/ousin: h)\ a)nti\ tou= tele/ws, prolhptikw=s th=| tw=n o)rne/wn xrw/menos metafora=|.
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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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 August 2000@01:44:32.
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