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ἀντίος

ἀντίος, set against

ἀντίος, ία, ίον, (ἀντί)
  • set against, and so,
    • I in local sense, face to face, opposite, ἀντίοι ἔσταν ἅπαντες Il. 1.535; ἀντίος ἦλθε θέων went to meet them, 6.54; ἡ δʼ οὐκ ἀθρῆσαι δύνατʼ ἀντίη though she faced him, Od. 19.478; esp. in battle, Il. 11.216, etc.: ἐχώρεον . . οἱ Πέρσαι ἀντίοι Hdt. 9.62; ἐκ τοῦ ἀντίου προσφέρεσθαι X. Cyr. 1.4.8; ἀντίος ἐλαύνειν ibid.; ἐκ τῆς ἀντίης προσπλέειν Hdt. 8.6; κατʼ ἀντίον Hp. VC 11:—freq. c. gen., which often precedes, Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίος ἐλθών Il. 11.231, cf. 5.301, 7.98; but also follows, ἀ. ἦλθεν ἄνακτος Od. 16.14, cf. Il. 17.31, etc.: less freq. in Hom. c. dat., ὅς ῥά οἱ ἀ. ἦλθε 15.584, cf. 7.20; but mostly so after Hom., ἀντίαι ἵζοντο τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι Hdt. 5.18, cf. Pi. N. 10.79, E. Supp. 667, X. An. 1.8.17, etc.; ἀ. ἐς . . h.Merc. 345; = διάμετρος, Man. 3.339.
        • b direct, opp. πλάγιος, Antyll. ap. Orib. 44.23.9, cf. Heliod.ib. 28.
      • 2 opposite, contrary, τὸν ἀ. τοῖσδε λόγον A. Ag. 499; τούτοις ἀντία opinions opposed to these, E. Supp. 466; ἁδεῖα μὲν ἀντία δʼ οἴσω with pleasure [I speak], though I shall offer reproof, S. Tr. 122; οἱ ἀντίοι, = οἱ ἐναντίοι, Pi. P. 1.45 (so later, PTeb. 43.21 (ii B.C.)); εἰς τὸ ἀντίον X. Eq. 12.12; also λόγοι ἀντίοι ἢ οὓς ἤκουον words the very reverse of those I have heard, Id. An. 6.6.34.
    • II as Adv. in neut. ἀντία and ἀντίον, against, over against, abs., ἀντίον ἷζεν Od. 14.79, cf. 17.334, etc.: more freq. like a Prep. c. gen., ἀντίʼ ἐμεῖο στήσεσθαι Il. 21.481; ἀντία δεσποίνης φάσθαι before her, Od. 15.377; so ἀντία σευ in thy presence, Hdt. 7.209, cf. 1.133; ἀντίον τοῦ μεγάρου facing it, Id. 5.77; τὰς καμήλους ἔταξε ἀντία τῆς ἵππου Id. 1.80, cf. 3.160, al.; τἀνδρὸς ἀντίον μολεῖν S. Tr. 785: so,
      • 2 against, ὅς τις σέθεν ἀντίον εἴπῃ Il. 1.230; ἀντίον αὐτῶν φωνὴν ἱέναι Hdt. 2.2; ἐρίζειν ἀντία τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς Pi. P. 4.285: c. dat., ἰέναι ἀντία τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι ἐς μάχην Hdt. 7.236; ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν ἀντίον Pi. N. 1.25.
      • 3 in the phrase τὸν δʼ ἀντίον ηὔδα answered, Od. 15.48, etc. (more freq. in Od. than Il.).
      • 4 ἀντία εἶναι to be present, help, of a god, Milet. 7p.64 (ii/iii A.D.).—The word is almost confined to Poets and Ion. Prose; in Att. Prose ἐναντίος is preferred, though X. uses ἀντίος.

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