Ἀμφίκορος
middle child
Translated by Jennifer Benedict10 Aug 2000Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the middle of three brothers. But a)mfi/kouros [is] she whom1 men would seize on both sides.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀμφίκορος· ὁ μέσος τῶν τριῶν ἀδελφῶν. Ἀμφίκουρος δὲ, ἣν ἑκατέρωθεν ἄνδρες περιλάβωσιν.
Betacode
*)amfi/koros: o( me/sos tw=n triw=n a)delfw=n. *)amfi/kouros de\, h(\n e(kate/rwqen a)/ndres perila/bwsin.
Notes (1)
- The first part of this double entry is also in Hesychius; the second part is in Photius, Lexicon alpha1341 -- but glossing there the present primary headword. Note also Hesychius s.v.
a)mfi/kouron , glosseda)mfote/rwqen kekarme/non ("cut/shorn on both sides").
Unattested outside lexicography, amphikoros is accepted by LSJ as a term which does (pace Photius) mean the middle of three brothers. LSJa)mfi/kouros has three parts: a tree-trunk lopped of its branches (as in a fragment of Sophocles); "shorn on both sides" (Photius, Hesychius); "seized by men on either side" (Suda). - 1Or: something (feminine) that. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Jun 2015
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict