ἀντίος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[[ἀντία]], [[ἀντίον]], ([[ἀντί]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[set against]], and so,<br><span class="bld">I</span> in local sense, [[face to face]], [[opposite]], ἀντίοι ἔσταν ἅπαντες Il.1.535; <b class="b3">ἀντίος ἦλθε θέων</b> went [[to]] [[meet]] [[them]], 6.54; ἡ δ' οὐκ ἀθρῆσαι δύνατ' ἀντίη [[though]] she [[face]]d [[him]], Od.19.478; especially in [[battle]], Il.11.216, etc.: ἐχώρεον.. οἱ Πέρσαι ἀντίοι [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.62; ἐκ τοῦ ἀντίου προσφέρεσθαι [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.4.8; <b class="b3">ἀντίος ἐλαύνειν</b> ibid.; ἐκ τῆς ἀντίης προσπλέειν [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.6; κατ' 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 [[Herodotus|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.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[direct]], opp. [[πλάγιος]], Antyll. ap. Orib.44.23.9, cf. Heliod.ib.28.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[opposite]], [[contrary]], τὸν ἀ. τοῖσδε λόγον A.''Ag.''499; <b class="b3">τούτοις ἀντία</b> opinions [[opposed to]] these, E.''Supp.''466; <b class="b3">ἁδεῖα μὲν ἀντία δ' οἴσω</b> with pleasure [I speak], though I shall offer [[reproof]], S.''Tr.''122; <b class="b3">οἱ ἀντίοι</b>, = [[οἱ ἐναντίοι]], Pi.''P.'' 1.45 (so later, ''PTeb.''43.21 (ii B.C.)); εἰς τὸ ἀντίον X.''Eq.''12.12; also <b class="b3">λόγοι ἀντίοι ἢ οὓς ἤκουον</b> words [[the]] [[very]] [[reverse]] of those I have [[hear]]d, Id.''An.''6.6.34.<br><span class="bld">II</span> as adverb 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., ἀντἴ ἐμεῖο στήσεσθαι Il.21.481; <b class="b3">ἀντία δεσποίνης φάσθαι</b> [[before]] her, Od.15.377; so <b class="b3">ἀντία σευ</b> in [[thy]] [[presence]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.209, cf. 1.133; <b class="b3">ἀντίον τοῦ μεγάρου</b> [[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,<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[against]], ὅς τις σέθεν ἀντίον εἴπῃ Il.1.230; ἀντίον αὐτῶν φωνὴν ἱέναι [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.2; ἐρίζειν ἀντία τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς Pi.''P.''4.285: c. dat., ἰέναι ἀντία τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι ἐς μάχην [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.236; ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν ἀντίον Pi.''N.''1.25.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in the phrase τὸν δ' ἀντίον ηὔδα [[answer]]ed, Od.15.48, etc. (more freq. in Od. than Il.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b3">ἀντία εἶναι</b> 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]].