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ἀντικαθίστημι , Ion. ἀντικατ- , fut. -καταστήσω:—
A.replace, substitute, “ἄλλα” Hdt.9.93; μὴ ἐλάσσω ἀντικαταστῆσαι πάλιν replace an equal quantity of gold, Th.2.13; ἄλλους ἀ. set up others in their stead, Arist.Mir.838a3.
2. set against, oppose, “τινὰ πρός τινα” Th. 4.93; establish as a counterpart, “τινά τινι” Pl.R.591a.
3. set up or bring back again, “ἀ. ἐπὶ τὸ θαρρεῖν” Th.2.65; rally, “τοὺς θορυβηθέντας” D.H.6.11.
II. Pass., with aor. 2 and pf. Act.; also aor. 1 “κατεστάθην” X.An.3.1.38:—to be put in another's place, reign in his stead, Hdt.2.37, X.l.c.
2. to be pitted against another, opposed, abs., Th.1.71, 3.47, etc.; “τινί” X.Eq.Mag.7.5.
b. in lawsuits, to be confronted with, τινί, πρός τινα, POxy.97.9 (ii A. D.), BGU168.11(ii A.D.).
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 (11):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.37
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.93
    • Plato, Republic, 591a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.93
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.71
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.65
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.47
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.1.38
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 7.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.13
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.11
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