Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀντίφονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίφονος ἀντίφονη ἀντίφονον

Structure: ἀντιφον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in return for slaughter, in revenge for blood
  2. by mutual slaughter

Examples

  • νῦν καλὸν ἀντίφονον κορέσαι στόμα πρὸσ χάριν ἐμᾶσ σαρκὸσ αἰόλασ· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ὃ δ’ υἱάσιν οἷσιν ὁμόκλα νεικείων Ἕλενόν τε Πάριν τ’ Ἀγάθωνά τε δῖον Πάμμονά τ’ Ἀντίφονόν τε βοὴν ἀγαθόν τε Πολίτην Δηί̈φοβόν τε καὶ Ἱππόθοον καὶ δῖον Ἀγαυόν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. in return for slaughter

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

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