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ἀντιπρόσωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιπρόσωπος ἀντιπρόσωπη ἀντιπρόσωπον

Structure: ἀντιπροσωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pro/swpon

Sense

  1. with the face towards, facing, face to face

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

  • ἐπειδὰν δ’ ὑπερβάλωσι τὸ κεφάλαιον τοῦ ἀντιπροσώπου θεάτρου, χρήσιμον ἂν οἰόμαι φανῆναι καὶ εἰ καθ’ ὁπόσουσ μέτριον εἰσ τὸ κάταντεσ δυναμένουσ ταχὺ ἐλαύνειν ἐπιδείξαισ τοὺσ ἱππέασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 9:1)
  • οὐ παραλειπτέον δ’ ἡμῖν ἀνεξέλεγκτον τὴν ἱστορίαν τῶν ἀποφηναμένων τοὺσ Ἀργοναύτασ ἀνὰ τὸν Ἴστρον πλεύσαντασ μέχρι τῶν πηγῶν κατενεχθῆναι διὰ τῆσ ἀντιπροσώπου ῥύσεωσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀδριατικὸν κόλπον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 56 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. with the face towards

Related

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

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