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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

  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Κροτωνιάταισ πολιορκουμένοισ ὑπὸ Βρεττίων οἱ Συρακόσιοι δύναμιν ἁδρὰν ἔπεμψαν, ἧσ ἐστρατήγει μὲν μεθ’ ἑτέρων Ἄντανδροσ ὁ Ἀγαθοκλέουσ ἀδελφόσ, τῶν δ’ ὅλων εἶχε τὴν ἡγεμονίαν Ἡρακλείδησ καὶ Σώστρατοσ, ἄνδρεσ ἐν ἐπιβουλαῖσ καὶ φόνοισ καὶ μεγάλοισ ἀσεβήμασι γεγονότεσ τὸν πλείω τοῦ βίου· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 3 3:1)
  • ῥηθέντων οὖν πολλῶν λόγων Ἄντανδροσ μὲν ᾤετο δεῖν παραδιδόναι τὴν πόλιν, ὢν ἄνανδροσ φύσει καὶ τῆσ τἀδελφοῦ τόλμησ καὶ πράξεωσ ἐναντίαν ἔχων διάθεσιν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 16 1:2)
  • τῆσ δὲ ἵππου καὶ τῶν ψιλῶν, οἳ συναμφότεροι ἐλάσσουσ πεντακοσίων ἦσαν, τούτων Πυθάρατοσ καὶ Ἄντανδροσ ἡγοῦντο. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 6:3)
  • τὴν δὲ Ἄντανδρον Ἀλκαῖοσ μὲν καλεῖ Λελέγων πόλιν πρῶτα μὲν Ἄντανδροσ Λελέγων πόλισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 85:5)
  • ἐντὸσ δὲ ἥ τε Ἄντανδρόσ ἐστιν ὑπερκείμενον ἔχουσα ὄροσ ὃ καλοῦσιν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, ὅπου τὰσ θεὰσ κριθῆναί φασιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Πάριδοσ, καὶ ὁ Ἀσπανεὺσ τὸ ὑλοτόμιον τῆσ Ἰδαίασ ὕλησ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 85:14)

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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