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ἀντίτυ^π-ος , ον, rarely η, ον, v. infr.11.1a: (τύπτω): —
A.repelled by a hard body, τύπος ἀ. blow and counter-blow, of the hammer and anvil, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.67, cf. 68; of sound, echoed, echoing, “στόνος” S.Ph.694(lyr.), 1460(lyr.), cf. APl.4.154 (Luc. or Arch.); κατὰ τὸ ἀ. by repercussion, of an echo, Luc.Dom.3; of light, reflected, “ἀκτῖνες” Tryph.519, cf. AP9.822.
2. corresponding, as the stamp to the die, ἅγια ἀ. τῶν ἀληθινῶν figuring or representing the true, Ep.Hebr.9.24, cf. 1 Ep.Pet.3.21; “ἀ. τοῖς δακρύοις χάριτα” IG14.1320; resembling, c. dat., Nonn.D.26.327; μίμημα ib.8.23: hence, feigned, counterfeit, 1.423, al.
b. corresponding, φιλότης mutual affection, 13.552.
c. Subst. ἀντίτυπος, ὁ, or ἀντίτυπον, τό, image, “Ἄμμωνος κεραοῦ χάλκεον ἀ.” Epigr.Gr.835 (Berytus); ἀντίτυπον, τό, = ἀντίγραφον, reproduction, copy, POxy.1470.6(iv A.D.): metaph., antitype, Plot.2.9.6.
II. Act., repelling, as a hard body does: hence,
1. firm, resistent, “χωρίον” Hp.Art.43; rigid, inelastic, AP9.739 (Jul. Aegypt.); -ώτερα ὄντα, of a horse's fetlocks, X.Eq.1.4; “ἀντιτύπᾳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε” S.Ant.134; οἱ ἐν ἀντιτύποις περίπατοι walking on hard ground, Arist.Pr.885a36; ἀντιτυπώτατον εἶδος, expl. of σκληρόν, most resistent, Pl.Ti.62c.
b. metaph., stubborn, obstinate, “ἄνθρωποι” Id.Tht.156a; “μάχη ἀ.” X.Ages.6.2; harsh-sounding, “ἁρμονίαι” D.H.Comp.22, cf. 16; “ἀ. ἀκοῦσαι” Ael.NA12.15; of colour, glaring, Plu.Dem.22.
2. opposed to, “ἦθος δόλιον πίστιος ἀντίτυπον” the reverse of . ., Thgn.1244; ἀ. Διός the adversary of Zeus, A.Th.521 (lyr.); adverse, of events, X.HG6.3.11: simply, “ἀ. τινι” opposite, over against, Plb.6.31.8.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 521
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.67
    • New Testament, 1 Peter, 3.21
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 156a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 62c
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 134
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 694
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    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.11
    • Xenophon, Agesilaus, 6.2
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 1.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.31.8
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 43
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 9.24
    • Plutarch, Demosthenes, 22
    • Lucian, De Domo, 3
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 16
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    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 12.15
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