in grammar and rhetoric, a term used to denote a phrase susceptible of two different interpretations. Amphibology arises from the order of the phrase, rather than from the ambiguous meaning of a word.

Of this kind was that answer which Pyrrhus received from the oracle: Aio te, Eacida, Romanos vincere posse; where the amphibology consists in this, that the words te and Romanos, may either of them precede, or either of them follow, the words posse vincere, indifferently. See Oracle.

The English language usually speaks in a more natural manner, and is not capable of any amphibologies of this kind; nor is it so liable to amphibologies in the articles, as the French and most other modern tongues.