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ἀντίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίκειμαι

Structure: ἀντι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as pass. of a)ntiti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to be set over against, lie opposite, by way of opposition

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • διάτασισ μὲν γὰρ φρενῶν πλατείη καὶ ἀντικειμένη, φύσισ δὲ νευρωδεστέρη τε καὶ ἰσχυροτέρη, διὸ ἧσσον ἐπώδυνά ἐστιν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxii.23)
  • ἡ δὲ λέξισ ἔσται ἀντικειμένη ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ὅταν τὸ μὲν κωλῦον τὸ δὲ μὴ κωλῦον μετατεθῇ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 9 37:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ ἐν κώλοισ λέξεωσ ἡ μὲν διῃρημένη ἐστὶν ἡ δὲ ἀντικειμένη, διῃρημένη μὲν, οἱο͂ν "πολλάκισ ἐθαύμασα τῶν τὰσ πανηγύρεισ συναγαγόντων καὶ τοὺσ γυμνικοὺσ ἀγῶνασ καταστησάντων" , ἀντικειμένη δέ, ἐν ᾗ ἑκατέρῳ τῷ κώλῳ ἢ πρὸσ ἐναντίῳ ἐναντίον σύγκειται ἢ ταὐτὸ ἐπέζευκται τοῖσ ἐναντίοισ, οἱο͂ν "ἀμφοτέρουσ δ’ ὤνησαν, καὶ τοὺσ ὑπομείναντασ καὶ τοὺσ ἀκολουθήσαντασ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 7:1)
  • τῇ δ’ ἀντικειμένῃ τῇ τελευταίᾳ δημοκρατίᾳ, τῇ δυναστικωτάτῃ καὶ τυραννικωτάτῃ τῶν ὀλιγαρχιῶν, ὅσῳ περ χειρίστη, τοσούτῳ δεῖ πλείονοσ φυλακῆσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 93:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be set over against

Derived

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

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