διάνδιχα

From δια- (dia-) +‎ ἄνδιχα (ándikha).

δῐάνδῐχᾰ • (diándikha)

1. (Epic) two ways, in two

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 188–192:

ὣς φάτο· Πηλείωνι δ’ ἄχος γένετ’, ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ
στήθεσσιν λασίοισι διάνδιχα μερμήριξεν,
ἠ’ ὅ γε φάσγανον ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ
τοὺς μὲν ἀναστήσειεν, ὃ δ’ Ἀτρείδην ἐναρίζοι,
ἦε χόλον παύσειεν ἐρητύσειέ τε θυμόν.

• Translation by Buckley

  Thus he spoke, and grief arose to the son of Peleus, and the heart within, in his hairy breast, was pondering upon two courses; whether, drawing his sharp sword from his thigh, he should dismiss them, and should kill the son of Atreus, or should put a stop to his wrath, and restrain his passion.

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• διάνδιχα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διάνδιχα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• διάνδιχα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “διάνδιχα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “διάνδιχα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press