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ἀντίδειπνος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίδειπνος

Etym.: dei=pnon

Sense

  1. taking another's place at dinner

Examples

  • τοῦτο ἀκούσασ ἐγὼ προσκυνήσασ ἀπῄειν εὐχόμενοσ ἅπασι θεοῖσ ἠπίαλὸν ’τινα ἢ πλευρῖτιν ἢ ποδάγραν ἐπιπέμψαι τῷ μαλακιζομένῳ ἐκείνῳ οὗ ἔφεδροσ ἐγὼ καὶ ἀντίδειπνοσ καὶ διάδοχοσ ἐκεκλήμην καὶ τὸ ἄχρι τοῦ λουτροῦ αἰῶνα μήκιστον ἐτιθέμην, συνεχὲσ ἐπισκοπῶν ὁποσάπουν τὸ στοιχεῖον εἰή καὶ πηνίκα ἤδη λοῦσθαι ^ δέοι. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 9:5)

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

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