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ἀμυδρ-ός , ά, όν,
A.dim, faint, obscure:
1. of impressions on the eye, ἀ. χοιράς a rock dimly seen through water, Archil.129; ἀ. γράμματα scarce legible letters, Th.6.54; ἀ. φέγγος, χρῶμα, Arist.Mete.343b13, 372a2; ἀ. τὰ εἴδη τῶν ἰχθύων, σκιὰς μᾶλλον ἢ ἰχθῦς εἰκάσεις (in a painting) Paus.10.28.1. Adv. ἀμυδσῶς, βλέπειν, ὁρᾶν, Arist.HA537b11, 556b19; ἀ. μιμεῖσθαί τι represent its form obscurely, ib.502b9; ἀ. ἔχειν to be ill-defined, PA 668a3.
2. generally, faint, weak, “σφυγμὸς ἀ. τὸν τόνον” Aret.CA2.3, cf.SD1.12; “τυπαί” Nic.Th.358 (Comp.).
3. of impressions on the mind, vague, “ἀ. εἶδος” Pl.Ti.49a; ἀ. πρὸς ἀλήθειαν faint in comparison with truth, Id.R.597a; δι᾽ ἀμυδρῶν ὀργάνων by imperfect organs, Id.Phdr.250b, cf. Tht.195a; μαντεῖα ἀμυδρότερα τοῦ τι σαφὲς σημαίνειν too obscure . . , Id.Ti.72b; “ἀ. ἐλπίς” Plu.Alc.38; ἀ. λόγος [Longin.] Rh.p.195H.; -ότερα σχήματα Aps.p.327 H.; “συναίσθησις” Dam.Pr.81 (Sup.), etc. Adv. “-ῶς καὶ οὐθὲν σαφῶς” Arist.Metaph.985a13, cf. 988a23; faintly, of one near death, Max.Tyr.16.2: Comp. “ἀμυδρότερον” Pl. Sph.250e, Plu.2.1025d.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.28.1
    • Plato, Republic, 597a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 195a
    • Plato, Sophist, 250e
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 250b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 49a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 72b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.54
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 2.3
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.12
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 38
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