ἀμφιδέξιος

amphidexios

ambidextrous

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 7 1134b18–1135a14

1134b34
History of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 1 497b6–501b4

497b31
Politics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 1273b27–1274b28

1274b13

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀμφιδέξιος, ον, A. ambidextrous (cf. ἀμφαρίστερος), Hp. Aph. 7.43 (wrongly expl. by Glaucias ap.Erot., S.E. M. 7.50), Arist. EN 1134b34; = περιδέξιος, Hippon. 83. Adv. -ίως, παίζειν Polem.Hist. 45. 2. ready to take with either hand, i.e. taking either of two things, indifferent, Trag.Adesp. 355 ( = Com.Adesp. 360); so ἀμφιδεξίως ἔχει it is indifferent, A. Fr. 266. 3. two-edged, σίδηρος E. Hipp. 780. b. metaph., double-meaning, ambiguous, χρηστήριον Hdt. 5.92.εʹ, cf. Luc. JTr. 43. 4. on either hand, with both hands, ἀ. ἀκμαῖς with both hands at once, S. OT 1243; ἐρείσατʼ . . πλευρὸν ἀμφιδέξιον ἐμφύντε τῷ φύσαντι OC 1112. 5. ἀμφιδέξια, τά, bracelets, Hsch.: sg. ἀμφίδεξιν (sic) IG 3.238a.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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