ἀμφότερος

ἀμφότερος ([dialect] Locr. [full] ἀμφόταρος IG9(1).334.39), α, ον, ([etym.] ἄμφω) rare in sg.,

A 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 τ' ἀγαθὸς κρατερός τ' 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 Ion541b

; 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:

κατ' ἀμφότερα

on both sides,

Hdt.7.10

.β, Pl.Prm.159a;

ἐπ' ἀμφότερα

towards both sides, both ways,

Hdt. 3.87

, al., Th.1.83, al.; ἀμφότερα, abs., on both sides, ib.13, al.; ἀπ' ἀμφοτέρων from or on both sides,

Ξέρξεω ἀπ' ἀ. ἀδελφεός Hdt.7.97

;

παρ' ἀμφοτέρων D.S.16.7

, al.; μετ' ἀμφοτέροισι one with another (s.v.l.), Theoc.12.12; ἀμφοτέροις βλέπειν (sc. ὄμμασι) Call.Epigr.32.6; ἀμφοτέραις, [dialect] Ep. -ῃσι (sc. χερσί) Od.10.264; ἐπ' 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.).