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ἀντικρύ , Adv.
A.= ἄντην, over against, right opposite, θεοῖς ἀντικρὺ μάχεσθαι I1.5.130: c. gen., Ἕκτορος ἀντικρύ ib.8.301.
II. = ἄντι^κρυς, straight on, right on, “ἀντικρὺ δόρυ χάλκεον ἐξεπέρησεν” Od.10.162; ἀντικρὺ μεμαώς I1.13.137: mostly followed by a Prep., “ἀντικρὺ δ᾽ ἀν᾽ ὀδόντας” 5.74; “ἀντικρὺ δι᾽ ὤμου” 4.481, cf. Od.22.16; ἀντικρὺ κατὰ μέσσον right in the middle, I1.16.285; once in X., “ἀντικρὺ διᾴττων” Cyr.7.1.30; cf. καταντι_κρύ.
2. outright, utterly, quite, ἀντικρὺ δ᾽ ἀπόφημι I1.7.362; “ἀντικρὺ δ᾽ ἀπάραξε” 16.116; “ἀντικρὺ μακάρεσσιν ἔϊκτο” A.R.4.1612, etc. (Cf. ἄντικρυς sub fin.) [ν_ generally, but υ^ Il. 5.130, 819; ι^ by nature (cf. “καταντι^κού” Ar.Ec.87), ι_ by po ition in Ep.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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