ἀμφίς

ἀμφίς, [dialect] Ep. word, once in Pi. (v.infr.), Trag. only E.Hyps. (v. infr.), prop.

A = ἀμφί, but mostly as Adv.:

1 on both sides, ἀ. ἀρωγοί helpers on either hand, to either party, Il.18.502, cf. 519; ἁμαρτῇ δούρασιν ἀ. βάλεν threw with spears from both hands at once, 21.162; σεῖον ζυγὸν ἀ. ἔχοντες having it on both sides, Od.3.486.

2 generally, round about,

ἀ. ἐόντες Il.24.488

; ἀ. ἰδών having looked about, Hes.Op.701 (cf. infr. B. 1); δεσμοὶ . . ἀ. ἔχοιεν may bonds encompass, Od.8.340;

σιδηρέῳ ἄξονι ἀ.

at each end,

Il.5.723

; and so (rather than between) 3.115, 7.342; μολπὴ ἀ. ἔχει δώματα fills the house, Xenoph. 1.12.

II apart, asunder,

γαῖαν καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀ. ἔχειν Od.1.54

; ἀ. ἐέργειν to keep apart, Il.13.706; ἀ. ἀγῆναι snap in twain, 11.559;

τόξων ἀϊκὰς ἀ. μένον 15.709

; ἀ. φράζεσθαι think separately, each for himself, i.e. to be divided, 2.13;

ἀ. φρονέοντε 13.345

; ἀ. ἕκαστα εἴρεσθαι to ask each by itself, i.e. one after another, Od.19.46 codd.; ἀ. ἔμμεναι to be absent, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.85.

B less freq as Prep., like ἀμφί:

I c.gen. (which it may either precede or follow), around, ἅρματος ἀ. ἰδεῖν look all round his chariot, Il.2.384.

b concerning,

ἀ. ἀληθείης Parm.8.51

;

ἀέθλοις . . ἐσθᾶτος ἀ. Pi.P.4.253

.

2 apart from, far from,

ἀ. ἐκείνων εἶναι Od.14.352

;

Διὸς ἀ. ἥσθην Il.8.444

;

ἀ. φυλόπιδος Od.16.267

; ἀ. ὁδοῦ aside from, out of road, Il.23.393; πάτρας ἀ. far from her fatherland, E. Hyps.Fr.3 iii 30.

II c. acc., about, around, always after its case,

Κρόνον ἀ. Il.14.274

;

Ποσιδήϊον ἀ. Od.6.266

, cf. 9.399.