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ἀντερεί-δω ,
A.set firmly against, χειρὶ χεῖρ᾽ ἀντερείσαις clasping hand in hand, Pi.P.4.37; but “ἄκναμπτον Ἥρᾳ μένος ἀν[τ]ερείδων” Id.Pae.6.87; “ἀντέρειδε τοῖς Ἐρεχθείδαις δόρυ” E.Supp.702; ἀ. ξύλα [τῷ πύργῳ] set wooden stays or props against it, X.HG5.2.5; ἀ. βάσιν plant it firm, S.Ph.1403; λίθοι οἱ-οντες τὰς περιφερεῖς στέγας springers of a vault, Demetr.Eloc.13.
II. intr., stand firm, resist pressure, offer resistance, opp. ὑπείκω, X.Cyr.8.8.16, cf. Cyn.10.16, Pl.Ti.45c, Arist. MA698b18, Epicur.Fr.76 bis; exert counter-pressure, “θέναρι ἀ.” Hp. Fract.14; τὸ ὠθούμενον ἀ. ὅθεν ὠθεῖται offers resistance in the direction from which the pressure comes, Arist.Mech.858a26; πρός or περί τι, Plu.2.924d, 923e.
2. metaph., exert mutual pressure, of contending politicians, Phld.Rh.2.51 S. (dub.); simply, argue against, Sor.2.57.
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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    • Euripides, Suppliants, 702
    • Plato, Timaeus, 45c
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1403
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.8.16
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.5
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.16
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 14
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