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ἀμφότερος

amphoteros

either

Appears 104 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀμφότερος (Locr. ἀμφόταρος IG 9(1).334.39), α, ον, (ἄμφω) rare in sg.,
either, i.e. both of two (opp. ἑκάτερος each one of two), ἀμφοτέρας κοινὸν αἴας common to either land, A. Pers. 131; ποίημα ἢ πάθος ἢ ἀμφότερον or partaking of both, Pl. Sph. 248d; τὸ ἀμφότερον ἑκατέρῳ οὐχ ἕπεται Id. Hp.Ma. 302e.
2. Hom. has sg. only neut. ἀμφότερον as Adv., foll. by τε . . καί; ἀ. βασιλεύς τʼ ἀγαθὸς κρατερός τʼ αἰχμητής both together, prince as well as warrior, ib. 3.179; ἀ. γενεῇ τε καὶ οὕνεκα . . Il. 4.60; foll. by τε . . δέ . . , Pi. P. 4.79: also neut. pl., ἀμφότερα μένειν πέμπειν τε A. Eu. 480; φιλοχρήματος καὶ φιλότιμος, ἤτοι τὰ ἕτερα τούτων ἢ ἀ. Pl. Phd. 68c; ἀ. ἄριστος καὶ στρατηγὸς καὶ ῥαψῳδός Ion 541b; by τε . . καί . . , Pi. O. 1.104.
3. dual in Hom., as ἀ. Αἴαντε Il. 12.265, al., less freq. in later writers, X. An. 1.1.1, Pl. Prm. 143c, Isoc. 4.134, etc.; but pl. is much more freq., and is found with a dual Noun, χεῖρε πετάσσας ἀμφοτέρας Il. 21.115.—Phrases: κατʼ ἀμφότερα on both sides, Hdt. 7.10.βʹ, Pl. Prm. 159a; ἐπʼ ἀμφότερα towards both sides, both ways, Hdt. 3.87, al., Th. 1.83, al.; ἀμφότερα, abs., on both sides, ib. 13, al.; ἀπʼ ἀμφοτέρων from or on both sides, Ξέρξεω ἀπʼ ἀ. ἀδελφεός Hdt. 7.97; παρʼ ἀμφοτέρων D.S. 16.7, al.; μετʼ ἀμφοτέροισι one with another (s.v.l.), Theoc. 12.12; ἀμφοτέροις βλέπειν (sc. ὄμμασι) Call. Epigr. 32.6; ἀμφοτέραις, Ep. -ῃσι (sc. χερσί) Od. 10.264; ἐπʼ ἀμφοτέροις βεβακώς (sc. ποσί) Theoc. 14.66.
II. later, of more than two, all together, Act. Ap. 19.16, PLond. 2.336.13 (ii A.D.).
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