Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ εἶδεν Ἰωὰβ ὅτι ἐγενήθη πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀντιπρόσωπον τοῦ πολέμου, ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐξεναντίασ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ὄπισθεν, καὶ ἐπελέξατο ἐκ πάντων τῶν νεανιῶν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ παρετάξαντο ἐξεναντίασ Συρίασ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 10:9)
  • τοῦτο δὴ τότε τὴν ἱέρειαν ἐξενεγκαμένην καὶ τρέπουσαν ἀεὶ κατὰ τοὺσ Αἰτωλοὺσ ἀντιπρόσωπον ἔκφρονασ καταστῆσαι καὶ παρελέσθαι τὸν λογισμόν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 32 3:1)
  • μήποτε γαστροβαρῆ πρὸσ σὸν λέχοσ ἀντιπρόσωπον παιδογόνῳ κλίνῃσ Κύπριδι τερπόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 541)
  • καὶ τὰσ μὲν μακρὰσ ναῦσ ἁπάσασ ἐνεώλκησε καὶ τάφρῳ βαθείᾳ καὶ τείχει ξυλίνῳ περιέλαβε, τὴν δὲ τῶν πεζῶν παρεμβολὴν ὠχύρωσεν ἀντιπρόσωπον ποιήσασ τῇ πόλει καὶ παρεκτείνασ ἀπὸ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ παρατειχίσματοσ μέχρι τῶν ὑπερκειμένων λόφων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 20 4:3)

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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