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ἀντιφων-έω ,
A.sound in answer, reply, rejoin, abs., A.Eu.303, S.Ant. 271, etc.; esp. answer in a loud voice, Plu.Mar.19, etc.
2. c. acc. cogn., . ἔπος utter a word in reply, S.Aj.773; “πόλλ᾽ .Id.El.1501; . Ἔρωτας, of a lute, sound love strains in reply, Anacreont.23.9.
3. c. acc. pers., reply to, answer,μή μ᾽ ἀντιφώνει μηδένS.Ph.1065.
4. answer by letter,τινίPlb.8.16.11, POxy.805 (i B.C.), al.: abs., Plb.8.17.8:—Pass., to be received in answer,ἐκ ῬώμηςId.15.18.6, cf. J.AJ 14.10.26; but -πεφωνημένα ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων δέλτων ἀντίγραφα copies taken from . ., OGI453.26 (M. Antonius).
5. controvert, disagree with,τινίS.E.M.7.327; to be discordant with,-φωνοῦντος τοῦ νῦν βίου τῷ βιβλίῳLuc.Apol.4.
II. legal t. t., = constituere, Anon.de Actionibus in Zeitschr.d.Savigny-Stiftung1893p.92.
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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 303
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 14.10.26
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 773
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 271
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1501
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1065
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.18.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.16.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.17.8
    • Plutarch, Caius Marius, 19
    • Lucian, Apologia, 4
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