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ἐπα^ρίστερ-ος , ον,
A.towards the left, on the left hand, τὰ ἐπαρίστερα (nisi scrib. ἐπ᾽ ἀρ-) Hdt.2.36,93,4.191; but “ἐπὶ τὰ ἀριστερά” Id.2.36.
2. written from right to left, Tab.Defix.67a8 (iii B. C.).
II. left-handed, D.C.72.19: usu. metaph., 'gauche', Ephipp.23; “ἐ. ἔμαθες γράμματα” at the wrong end, Theognet.1.7; “βουλεύματα” D.S.8Fr.5; ἐ. Κάτωνες awkward imitators of Cato, Plu.Cat.Ma.19. Adv. “-ρως, λαμβάνειν τι” Men.325.2; “τὴν τύχην δεξιὰν παρισταμένην ἐ. λαμβάνειν” Plu.2.467c.
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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