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ἐναντι^ό-ομαι , Ion.part. ἐναντιεύμεν<*>ς Hdt.7.49: impf.
A.“ἠναντιούμην” Th.1.127, etc.:—Med., fut. “-ώσομαι” A.Pr.786, Ar.Pax1049, etc.:— Pass., fut. “ἐναντιωθήσομαι” LXX 4 Ma.5.26, D.H.4.51: aor. “ἠναντιώθην” And.1.67, Pl.Ap.32b, etc.: pf. “ἠναντίωμαι” Th.2.40 codd., etc., but in Ar.Av.385 the metre requires ἐνηντίωμαι:—set oneself against, oppose, withstand, “τινί” And.1.67, cf. Hdt.7.49, Th.1.127, Ar.Av.385, Pax 1049; also “ἐ. ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας” Lys.13.17; “ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν” Id.20.8; “τινί τινος” Th.1.136, X.An.7.6.5: abs., Th.4.21: c. inf., οὐκ ἐναντιώσομαι τὸ μὴ οὐ γεγωνεῖν I will not refuse to speak, A.Pr.786; “τοὺς Χορευτὰς ἐναντιούμενος ἡμῖν ἀφεθῆναι τῆς στρατείας” D.21.15.
2. contradict, gainsay, E.Alc.152; “πρός τι” Pl.Cra.39ce, etc.: c.inf., “τοῦτο . . μοι ἐ. τὰ πολιτικὰ πράττειν” Id.Ap.31 d: with a neg., τίς ἐναντιώσεται μὴ οὐχὶ . . εἶναι; Id.Smp.197a.
3. of the wind, to be adverse, “οὐκ ἔστι λῃσταῖς πνεῦμ᾽ ἐναντιούμενον” S.Ph.643; of circumstances, Th.8.23; “ἄνεμοι ἐ. ἀλλήλοις” Hp.Aër.8.
4. τὰ ἐς ἀρετὴν ἐνηντιώμεθα τοῖς πολλοῖς in respect of goodness we are the opposile of most men, Th.2.40; behave in the opposite way, MenoIatr.15.41.
5. Astrol., to be in diametrical aspect, Vett.Val.126.5. (Act. only in doubtful form “ἐναντιόωντα” Man.4.473.)
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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