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ἀμφίβιος , ον,
A.living a double life, esp. amphibious, νομή, of frogs, Batr.59; “ἀ. στόμα” Pl.Epigr.2, cf. Ax.368b; “θήρ” Man.4.23; of plants, Thphr.HP1.4.3; ἀμφίβιον, τό, = ἀλόη, Ps.-Dsc.3.22:—said by Thphr. (Fr.171.12) to have been first used by Democr.
2. metaph., of the soul, denizen of two worlds, Plot.4.8.4; of man, Hierocl.in CA23p.468M.; “ὁ κατὰ τὴν ζωὴν κόσμος ἐστὶν οἷον ἀμφίβιον” Dam.Pr.81, cf. 85; φύσις ἀ. ib.399, cf. 400; of the moon, “ἄστρον ἀ. πρὸς νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν” Max.Tyr.40.4; of Tiresias (who lived both as man and as woman), Luc.Astr.11.
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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