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ἄντανδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄντανδρος ἄντανδρᾱ ἄντανδρον

Structure: ἀντανδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r

Sense

  1. instead of a man, as a substitute

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ βούλεσθε δέ, καὶ ἄντανδρον ὑμῖν ἀντ’ ἐμαυτοῦ παραδώσω τὸν ἀγαπητόν. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 10:2)
  • ἄντανδρον σε τῷ Πλούτωνι παρέδωκεν ἀνθ̓ ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ σὺ τοίνυν ἀντ̓ ἐκείνου νεκρὸσ εἶ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:2)
  • αἱρεῖ δὲ καὶ Θήβασ τὰσ Ὑποπλακίασ καὶ Λυρνησσόν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ <Ἄντ>ανδρον καὶ ἄλλασ πολλάσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 3 50:3)
  • τὴν γὰρ ἐπίνοιαν ταύτην οὐδενὶ τῶν φίλων δηλώσασ τῆσ μὲν πόλεωσ ἐπιμελητὴν Ἄντανδρον τὸν ἀδελφὸν κατέστησε μετὰ τῆσ ἱκανῆσ φυλακῆσ, αὐτὸσ δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπιλέγων τοὺσ εὐθέτουσ κατέγραφε, τοῖσ μὲν πεζοῖσ παραγγέλλων ἑτοίμουσ εἶναι μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων, τοῖσ δ’ ἱππεῦσι διακελευόμενοσ ἔχειν μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν χωρὶσ τῆσ πανοπλίασ ὑπηρέσιον καὶ χαλινόν, ὅπωσ, ὅταν ἵππων κυριεύσῃ, τοὺσ ἀναβησομένουσ ἑτοίμουσ ἔχειν, τὰ πρὸσ τὴν χρείαν ἐξηρτυμένουσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 4 1:1)
  • ἀκούσασ γὰρ τὴν τῶν υἱῶν ἀναίρεσιν καὶ δι’ ὀργῆσ ἔχων ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἀπολελειμμένουσ κατὰ Λιβύην ἔπεμψε τῶν φίλων τινὰσ εἰσ Συρακούσσασ πρὸσ Ἄντανδρον τὸν ἀδελφόν, διακελευσάμενοσ τοὺσ τῶν συστρατευσάντων ἐπὶ Καρχηδόνα συγγενεῖσ ἅπαντασ ἀποσφάξαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 72 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. instead of a man

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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