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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

  • ὁ δὲ ξίφει τοὺσ κατὰ πλευρὸν ἀεὶ διαστέλλων καὶ πολλοὺσ τῶν ἀντιπροσώπων ἀνατρέπων ἤλαυνεν ὑπὲρ τοὺσ ἐρειπομένουσ τὸν ἵππον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 72:1)
  • συνέβαινε γὰρ οὐ μόνον κατὰ πρόσωπον τὰ φερόμενα βέλη προσπίπτειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὰ νῶτα τῶν ἀντιπροσώπων ὄντων ἐν στενῷ χώματι διικνεῖσθαι καὶ μηδένα δύνασθαι διαφυλάξασθαι τοὺσ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν μερῶν κατατιτρώσκοντασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 42 2:2)

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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