substitute

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verb transitive

change: P. and V. μεταλλάσσειν, διαλλάσσειν, ἀνταλλάσσειν, ἀμείβειν (Plato but rare P.).

choose instead: P. and V. ἀνθαιρεῖσθαι.

introduce instead: P. ἀντεισάγειν.

give in exchange: P. and V. ἀντιδιδόναι (Eur., Iphigenia in Tauris 28).

substitute a child (by fraud): P. and V. ὑποβάλλεσθαι.

substantive

Use V. adj. ἀντίσταθμος (Soph., Electra 571).

successor: use P. and V. adj., διάδοχος.

changeling: V. διάλλαγμα, τό, or use P. adj. ὑποβολιμαῖος.

the multitude is but a sorry kind of substitute for a true friend: V. ἀλόγιστον δέ τι τὸ πλῆθος ἀντάλλαγμα γενναίου φίλου (Eur., Orestes 1156).

the goddesses promised me that Admetus should escape immediate death, if he found a substitute to die for him and satisfy the nether powers: V. ᾔνεσαν δέ μοι θεαὶ Ἄδμητον ᾍδην τὸν παραυτίκ' ἐκφυγεῖν ἄλλον διαλλάξαντα τοῖς κάτω νεκρόν (Eur., Alcibiades 12).