ἀμφότερος (amphoteros)

Where it lives

Hippias Major 57 · 67.52/10k
Hipparchus 8 · 35.49/10k
Susanna (LXX) 2 · 26.18/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 4 · 21.76/10k
Hippias Minor 9 · 20.66/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 110 · 19.8/10k
Ruth 3 · 15.63/10k
Theaetetus 33 · 14.68/10k
Parmenides 21 · 13.86/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 7 · 13.33/10k
Ephesians 3 · 12.46/10k
Sophist 19 · 11.86/10k

Densest 12 of 103 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἀμφότερος · amphoteros — LSJ

either, both of two, each one, either, partaking of both

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 both together

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 on both sides, towards both sides, both ways, on both sides, from, on both sides, one with another

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,

II all together

later, of more than two, all together, Act. Ap. 19.16, PLond. 2.336.13 (ii A.D.).

2. ἀμφοτέρ-ως · amphoter-ōs — LSJ

in both ways

in both ways, Pl. Prm. 159a, Grg. 469a, etc.

In the wild

ἀμφότερα · amphotera Aeschylus, Eumenides 480–481
ἀμφότερα · amphotera Aeschylus, Persians 491
ἀμφοτέρας · amphoteras Aeschylus, Persians 126–132
ἀμφότερα · amphotera Aeschylus, Persians 720
ἀμφοτέρους · amphoterous Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 402–404
ἀμφότερα · amphotera Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1955)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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