Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀμφίβολ-ος

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III. doubtful, ambiguous, Pl.Cra.437a, X.Mem.1.2.35, etc.; τἀγαθὰ ἐς ἀμφίβολον ἀσφαλῶς ἔθεντο prudently accounted their good fortune as doubtful, Th. 4.18; ἐς ἀ. θέσθαι call in question, Plu.2.756c; “τὰ ἅπαξ κεκριμένα ἀ. ποιῆσαι” OGI664 (Egypt, i A.D.); “ἀ. νόμος” Arist.Rh.1375b11; “τὸ ἀ.” Top.160a29; “ἀμφίβολα λέγειν” Rh.1407a37; “δηλώσεις ἀ.” Epicur. Ep.1p.27U.; συλλογισμοί, λέξεις, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.67,107; διάλεκτοι, prob. contradictory, ib.56,58; οἰνάριον ἀ. doubtful whether it is wine or vinegar, Polioch.2.8; ἐν ἀμφιβόλῳ εἶναι to be doubtful, Luc.D Mort. 1.1; “κατὰ δύο ἀμφίβολα” Olymp.in Mete.22.27. Adv., “οὐκ ἀμφιβόλως” A.Th.863; “ἀ. ἔχειν” D.H.Rh.10.5; “δέξασθαι” Arr.Tact.31.1.

IV. of persons, in doubt, wavering, uncertain, Luc.D Deor.20.11, D.C.37.36, etc.; also ἀ. βίος, of a turncoat, Luc.Pseudol.16; ἄνθρωπος, of a eunuch, Lib.Eth.26.3.

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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