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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

  • Τρισὶ δ’ ὠχυρωμένη τείχεσιν ἡ πόλισ καθ’ ἣν μὴ ταῖσ ἀβάτοισ φάραγξι κεκύκλωτο, ταύτῃ γὰρ εἷσ ἦν περίβολοσ, αὐτὴ μὲν ὑπὲρ δύο λόφων ἀντιπρόσωποσ ἔκτιστο μέσῃ φάραγγι διῃρημένων, εἰσ ἣν ἐπάλληλοι κατέληγον αἱ οἰκίαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 157:1)
  • κατ’ ἀρχὰσ μὲν οὖν ἡ παραλία, καθάπερ εἶπον, ἐπὶ τὴν ἑώ τείνει καὶ βλέπει πρὸσ νότον, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν Βατῶν ἐπιστροφὴν λαμβάνει κατὰ μικρόν, εἶτ’ ἀντιπρόσωποσ γίνεται τῇ δύσει καὶ τελευτᾷ πρὸσ τὸν Πιτυοῦντα καὶ τὴν Διοσκουριάδα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 20:5)

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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