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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

  • εἰ κατέλθοι δ’ εἰσ τὰσ Συρακούσσασ, πάντωσ ἀναγκαῖον ἂν ἦν ἰδιώτην ὑπάρχειν καὶ ἕνα τῶν πολλῶν ἀριθμεῖσθαι, τῆσ αὐτονομίασ ἀγαπώσησ τὴν ἰσότητα, ἔν τε ταῖσ χειροτονίαισ ὑπὸ τοῦ τυχόντοσ δημαγωγοῦ παρευημερεῖσθαι, τοῦ πλήθουσ ἀντικειμένου ταῖσ ὑπεροχαῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἀγόντων παρρησίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 79 3:1)
  • " δεύτεροσ δ’ ἐστὶν ἀναπόδεικτοσ ὁ διὰ συνημμένου καὶ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου τοῦ λήγοντοσ τὸ ἀντικείμενον τοῦ ἡγουμένου ἔχων συμπέρασμα, οἱο͂ν "εἰ ἡμέρα ἐστί, φῶσ ἐστιν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 80:4)
  • " ἡ γὰρ πρόσληψισ γίνεται ἐκ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου τῷ λήγοντι καὶ ἡ ἐπιφορὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου τῷ ἡγουμένῳ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 80:7)
  • ἐμνήσθημεν δ’ αὐτῆσ πολλάκισ καὶ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου αὐτῇ Κριοῦ μετώπου, διθάλαττον ποιοῦντοσ τὸν Εὔξεινον πόντον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 20:13)

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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