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ἀντιβάλλω ,
A.throw against or in turn, Th.7.25 (the acc. pers. being understood); “βέλος” Plb.6.22.4: c. dat., “ἀ. ἀκοντίοις” Plu.Nic.25; ἀ. τῷ κωρύκῳ practise by striking against the sack, in the gymnasium, Luc.Lex.5; put back a protruding bone, Pall.in Hp.Fract.12.285C.
II. put one against the other, compare, collate, of Mss., Str.13.1.54, 17.1.5, POxy.1479 (i B.C., Pass.); match, compare with, “λέοντι τίς αἰετὸν ἀντιβάλοιτο;” Opp.C.1.68; λόγους ἀ. πρὸς ἀλλήλους exchange words in conversation, Ev.Luc.24.17; πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀ. τὸ γεγονός weigh with oneself, LXX 2 Ma.11.13.
III. in Med., change, μορφήν dub.1.Opp.C.3.16.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • New Testament, Luke, 24.17
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.25
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.22.4
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.1.54
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 1
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 11.13
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 25
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 5
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