A.turned so as to face one another: hence, correlative, co-ordinate, counterpart, Pl.Tht.158c, etc.; τινί to a thing, Id.Grg.464b, R.605a; “ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀ. τῇ διαλεκτικῇ” Arist.Rh.1354a1, Pol.1293a33, etc.; “ἰατρικὴ ἀ. δικαιοσύνῃ” Aristid.2.37 J.; also τινός the correlative or counterpart of . ., Pl.R.530d, Grg.465d, Isoc.5.61, etc.; “ἀ. . . ὥσπερ” Arist.Pol.1292b7. Adv. -φως in a manner corresponding, “τινί” Pl.R. 539d; “ἡ γλῶττα ὥσπερ -φως ἔχουσα τῷ μυκτῆρι” being the counterpart of . ., Arist.PA661a27; συμβαίνει δ᾽ ἀντιστρόφως the result follows by a reversible proof, Id.Ph.265b8.
2. in Logic, converse, “λόγος” Phld.Rh.1.179S. Adv. “-φως” Id.Sign.6: also in Math., converse, “θεώρημα” Papp.970.20; “τὰ ἀ.” the converse proposition, Apollon.Perg.Con. 4.55. Adv. -φως conversely, ib.1.38, Max.Tyr.34.4.
3. contrary, opposed, “τινός” D.Chr.4.87; “πρός τι” Luc.Merc.Cond.31. Adv. “-φως” in the opposite way, Phld.Lib.p.31O., Ps.-Luc.Philopatr.18.
II. that can be retorted, D.H.Rh.9.5 (as v.l., cf. ἀγχι-).
IV. in lyrics, antistrophic, Arist.Pr.918b27, etc.: esp. Subst. ἀντίστροφος (sc. ᾠδή), ἡ, antistrophe, Id.Rh.1409a26, D.H, Comp.19, etc.; also of members in a rhet. period, ἐν στροφῇ καὶ ἀντιστρόφῳ Hermog.Id.1.11.
V. f.l. for ἀμφίστροφος, wheeling both ways, A.Supp.882codd.
VI. retorting a charge, Procop.Arc. 17.
2. ἀντίστροφοι, name for the two upper ribs, Poll.2.182.
VIII. Adv. -φως crosswise, “τὰς χεῖρας ἀλλήλαις ἐπιβάλλειν” Gal.UP5.14; inversely, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.5.4, cf. Diogenian.3.30.