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ἀμβλ-ύς , εῖα, ύ,
A.blunt, dulled, with edge or point taken off, properly of a sharp instrument, opp. ὀξύς, Pl.Ly.215e, Tht.<*>65d; ἀ. γωνία obtuse angle, Id.Ti.55a; ἀμβλεῖα, ἡ, sc. γωνία, Arist.Mech.855a10, etc.; ἀ. πλευρά side adjacent to such angle, Hero *Geom.12.35, etc.
2. of light, dim, faint, ὄρθρος Ion ap.Phot.p.89R.
3. metaph., dim, faint, of sight, ἀμβλὺ ὁρᾶν, -ύτερον βλέπειν, Pl.Tht.174e, Arist.PA 656b36, al.; of hearing, “τῆς ἀκοῆς οὔσης -υτέρας αἰσθήσεως ἢ τῆς ὄψεως” Pr.886b32; of the feelings or mind, “ἀμβλυτέρᾳ τῇ ὀργῇ” less keen, Th. 3.38; “ἀμβλύτερον ποιεῖν τι” less vigorous, Id.2.65. Adv. “ἀμβλέως” Archig. ap. Orib.8.2: Comp., v. supr.
b. dull, monotonous, “τὠμβλὺ τῆς ζόης” Herod.3.52.
c. of persons, in A.Eu.238, of Orestes purified, having lost the edge of guilt: mostly, dull, spiritless, having lost keenness of feeling, E.Fr.821; “ἀμβλύτερος τὴν φύσιν” duller, X.Mem.3.9.3; ἀ. εἴς, περί, or πρός τι dull or sluggish in a thing, Plu. Cat.Ma.24, Alc.30, D.S.11.43 (Comp.): abs., Th.2.40. Adv., Comp. “-υτέρως” J.AJ19.2.5.
II. Act., making dull, darkening, of a cloud, AP7.367(Antip.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 238
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.43
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.2.5
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 174e
    • Plato, Lysis, 215e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 55a
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 30
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.65
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.38
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.9.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.40
    • Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 24
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