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ἀντίφρα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἀντιφράζω) Rhet. and Gramm.,
A.antiphrasis, i.e. the use of words of good sense in place of those of a contrary sense, Εὐμενίδες for Ἐρινύες, πόντος εὔξεινος for ἄξεινος, Ath.3.90b; or οὐδ᾽ ἄρα . . γήθησεν for ἐλυπήθη, Trypho Trop.2.15; “κατ᾽ ἀντίφρασιν” Corn.ND4, Erot.s.v. ἀσήμοις, Herm.in Phdr.p.176A., Porph.Chr. 87.
II. expression by means of negation, Anon.Fig.p.212S.
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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