A.barricading, γῆς ἀ. the interposition of the earth, so as to cause a lunar eclipse, Arist.APo.90a16, cf. Mete. 367b21; so “ἥλιον ἐκλείπειν σελήνης ἀντιφράξει” Id.Fr.210, cf. Plu.2.169a.
II. Pythag. name for seventeenth day of the month, ib.367f.
ἀντίφραξις , εως, ἡ, (ἀντιφράσσω)
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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