prep. with gen., dat., and acc.—Radic. sense, on both sides (cf. ἄμφω, Lat. ambo), whereas περί properly means all round.
A.c. gen.:
B.C. DAT.:
I.of Place, on both sides of, about, ἀμφὶ ὤμοις, στήθεσσι Hom.; likewise, ἀμφὶ περὶ στήθεσσι Od.:—then, just like περί, all round, κρέα ἀμφὶ ὀβελοῖς ἔπειραν they fixed the meat round, i. e. upon, the spits, id=Hom.
C.C. ACC.:
3.of persons who are about one, οἱ ἀμφὶ Πρίαμον Priam and his train, id=Il.; οἱ ἀμφὶ ?έρξεα his army, Hdt.; in attic, οἱ ἀμφὶ Πρωταγόραν the school of Protagoras or Protagoras himself, Plat.
5.εἶναι, διατρίβειν ἀμφί τι to be engaged about it, Xen.
II.as a loose definition of Time, about, Pind.; ἀμφὶ Πλειάδων δύσιν Aesch.:—so of Number, Lat. circiter, ἀμφὶ τὰς δώδεκα μυριάδας about 120, 000, Xen.
D.WITHOUT CASE, as adv., on both sides, about, around.
2.= ἀμφίς A. 11, apart, Hhymn.
E.IN COMPOS.:
I.about, on both sides, as ἀμφίστομος, ῀ δίστομος.
2.all round, on all sides, as ἀμφιλαμβάνω, ἀμφιλαφής.
II.Causal, for, for the sake of, as ἀμφιμάχομαι.