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ἀμφισ-βητέω , impf. ἠμφεσβήτουν: fut. -ήσω: aor. ἠμφεσβήτησα:—Pass., fut. of med. form
A.“-ήσομαι” Pl. Tht.171b: aor. “ἠμφεσβητήθην” Id.Plt.276b, al., Is.8.44:—Ion. ἀμφισβα^τέω twice in Hdt. (v. infr.), SIG279.18 (Zelea): impf. “ἀμφεσβάτει” Inscr.Prien.37.99; also Aeol. pf. part. Pass. “ἀμφισβατημένος” IG12(2).6.25 (Mytilene): (v. βαίνω):—lit. go asunder, stand apart: hence, disagree with, “ὁ ἕτερος τῶν λόγων τῷ πρότερον λεχθέντι -βατέων” Hdt.9.74.
b. abs., disagree, dispute, wrangle, Id.4.14, etc.: “περί τινος” And.1.27, Isoc.4.19, Pl.Prt.337a; “ὑπέρ τινος” Antipho3.4.3: “πρός τινα” 3.1.1; οἱἀμφισβητοῦντες the parties, in a law-suit, Arist.Rh.1354a31.
2. c. dat. pers., dispute or argue with a person, Pl.Phdr.263a,al.; “τινὶ περί τινος” Id.Plt.268a.
3. c. gen. rei, dispute for or about a thing, “τοῦ σίτου τοῦ ἡμετέρου” D.32.9; lay claim to, “τῆς ἡγεμονίας” Isoc.4.20; τῶν οὐδὲν ὑμῖν προσηκόντων Epist. Phil. ap. D.12.23; “τῆς ἀρχῆς” D.39.19; “τῆς πολιτείας” Arist.Pol.1280a6, cf. 1283a11; τρία τὰ ἀμφισβητοῦντα τῆς ἰσότητος three things which claim equal shares in . . , 1294a19; “τῆς μεσότητος ἀ. τὰ ἄκρα” EN1125b18:—also ἀ. πρός τι make a claim with reference to a standard, Pol. 1283a24.
b. Att. law-term, lay claim to property of deceased or guardianship of heiress, χρημάτων Jsoc.19.3; “κλήρου” D.3.5, 44.38; “κληρονομίας” Is.3.1: abs., 3.61, 6.3; “τινὶ περὶ τῶν πατρῴων” 3.61; πρὸς διαθήκην in defiance of a will, Isoc.19.1.
4. c. acc. rei, dispute point, be at issue upon it, “ἓν τουτὶ ἀμφισβητοῦμεν” Pl.Grg.472d; “οὐκ ἀληθῆ ἀ.” Mx.242d; cf. ἀμφισβητητέον.
5. c. acc. et inf., argue, maintain that . . , “ἀ. εἶναί τι” Id.Grg.452c, cf. D.27.62, etc.; but ἀ. ὅτι ἐστί τι dispute the fact that . . , Pl.Smp.215b: with neg., argue or maintain that it is not, “τὸ μὴ οὐχὶ ἡδέα εἶναι τὰ ἡδέα λόγος οὐδεὶς ἀ.” Phlb.13a; “ἠμφεσβήτει μὴ ἀληθῆ λέγειν ἐμέ” D.19.19; “ἀ. ὡς οὐκ ἀληθῆ λέγει τις” Pl.R.476d,al.: οὐδεὶς ἀ. περὶ τούτων, ὡς οὐ . . Arist.Pol.1287b17; “σὺ δὲ ἀμφισβητῶν ἀνὴρ εἶναι” Aeschin.2.148.
II. Pass., to be the subject of dispute, to be in question, “ἀμφισβητεῖταί τι” Pl.R.581e, etc.: impers., “ἀμφισβητεῖται περί τι” Sph.225b; “περί τινος” R.457e; “ἠμφεσβητήθη μηδεμίαν εἶναι τέχνην” Plt.276b; “ὁ πολίτης ἀ.” is a debatable term, Arist.Pol.1275a2; τὰ ἀμφισβητούμενα, = ἀμφισβητήματα, Th. 6.10, 7.18, Isoc.4.19, Pl.Lg.641e, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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