A.set against, Pl.Erx.395b; “ἀ. πόλεμον ἐπί τινι” AP7.438 (Damag.): used by Hom. only in Med. or Pass., set oneself against, fight against another, “ἀντεφέροντο μάχη” Il.5.701; ἀργαλέος γὰρ Ὀλύμπιος ἀντιφέρεσθαι hard to oppose, 1.589, cf. Od.16.238: c. acc. cogn., μένος ἀ. τινί match oneself with another in strength, Il.21.482; “τίς Ὁμηρείοις ἀντιφέροιτο λόγοις;” AP9.625 (Maced.).
ἀντιφέρω ,
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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