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, Εὐκάρια, 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.