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ἄντα , Ep. Adv.
A.over against, face to face, in Hom. mostly in the phrases, ἄ. μάχεσθαι fight man to man, Il.19.163; ἄ. ἰδεῖν look before one, ib.13.184, cf.E.Alc.877 (lyr.); θεοῖς ἄ. ἐῴκει he was like the gods to look at, Il.24.630; “εἴδεται ἄ. πελιδνή” Nic.Th.238; ἄ. τιτύσκεσθαι aim straight at them, Od.22.266, cf. Pi.N.6.27; “ἄ. πρός τινος” Epigr.Gr.223.4 (Milet.).
II. as Prep. with gen., like ἀντί, over against, “Ἤλιδος ἄ.” Il.2.626; ἄ. παρειάων σχομένη κρήδεμνα . . before her cheeks, Od.1.334; “ἄντ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖϊν” 4.115; also of persons, ἄ. σέθεν before thee, to thy face, ib.160, cf. 22.232; so in Il.21.331, with a notion of comparison, confronted with thee; ἕρπει ἄ. τῶ σιδάρω τὸ καλῶς κιθαρίσδεν rivals it, Alcm.35.
2. in hostile sense, against, “Διὸς ἄ. πολεμίζειν” Il.8.428; Διὸς ἄ . . . ἔγχος ἀεῖραι ib.424; “εἴ κέ μευ ἄ. στήης” 17.29; Αἴαντος στήμεναι ἄ. ib.166.
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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