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|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[set against]], <span class="bibl">Th.4.115</span>; especially in battle, πελταστικὴν τῆ τοῦ παγκρατίου μάχῃ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>834a</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. τροπαῖον</b> [[set up]] a trophy [[in opposition]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.54</span>,<span class="bibl">105</span>; [[weigh against]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span> 1389</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. τινὸς τὴν ὁλκήν</b> [[outweigh]] him, LXX.<span class="title">Si.</span>8.2. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[match with]], [[compare]], ἀντιστῆσαι καὶ παραβαλεῖν <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Thes.</span>1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> Hom. uses only Pass., with intr. aor. 2 [[ἀντέστην]]. aor. 1 Pass. ἀντεστάθην <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.72</span>: pf. ἀνθέστηκα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Rom.</span>9.19</span>; Att. contr. part. ἀνθεστώς <span class="bibl">Th.6.70</span>: fut. ἀντιστήσομαι <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.75</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>645</span>:—[[stand against]], especially in battle, [[withstand]], Ἥρῃ δ' ἀντέστη . . Ἄρτεμις <span class="bibl">Il.20.70</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">72</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.117</span> al.; τοὺς ἀνθισταμένους τοῖς ὑμετέροις βουλήμασι <span class="bibl">D.18.49</span>; πρὸς τὴν ἀνάγκην οὐδ' Ἄρης ἀ. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>256</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.1.93</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>5.1</span>: rarely c. gen., δέος . . σοὶ φρενῶν ἀνθίσταται <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>703</span> ([[ἀνθάπτεται]] Wakef.), cf. <span class="bibl">Q.S.1.520</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of things, [[turn out unfavourably]] to one, ἀντιστάντος αὐτῷ τοῦ πράγματος <span class="bibl">Th.5.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">38</span>; ἄν τὰ παρ' ὑμῶν τῶν ἀκουόντων ἀντιστῇ <span class="bibl">D.19.340</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> abs., [[make a stand]], ἀλλ' ἔτ' ἄρ' ἀνθίσταντο <span class="bibl">Il.16.305</span>; [[resist]], [[fight on]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.72</span>, etc.; ὑπέρ τινος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1231</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span>518</span>.</span>