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ἄντι^κρυ^ς , Adv.
A.straight on, right on, ἄντικρυς ἰὼν παρεκαθέζετο ἐκ δεξιᾶς he came straight up and . ., Pl.Euthd.273b, cf. Ar.Lys.1068, Th.2.4; also “εἰς τὸ ἀ. πορεύεσθαι” Pl.Smp.223b.
2. outright, openly, without disguise, “ὅπως ἄ. τάδ᾽ αἰνέσω” A.Ch.192; “ὁ χρησμὸς ἄ. λέγει” Ar. Eq.128; “εὔχονταί γε πλουτεῖν ἄ.” Id.Pl.134; “ἄ. ἔφη χρῆναι πλεῖν” Th. 6.49; “ἃ ἠδικοῦντο οὐ δηλοῦντες ἄντικρυς” Id.5.30; οὐδὲν ἢ ἄ. δουλείαν downright slavery, Id.1.122; “ἡ ἄ. ἐλευθερία” Id.8.64; οὐκ ἄ. not at all, “οὐ διοίσοντ᾽ ἄ. τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν” Ar.Pl.384.
3. sts. of Time, straightway, “συλλαβόντες ἄγουσιν ἄ. ὡς ἀποκτενοῦντες” Lys.13.78, cf. Men.Pk.38, Pl.Ax367a.
II. later, = ἀντικρύ, opposite, ἄ. εῖναι to oppose, Arist.EE1243a37; “ἄ. ἐπιέναι” against, D.H.3.24; “καταστῆναι” Plu.Sol.27; “κατακλιθῆναί τινος” LXX 3 Ma.5.16; ἐν τῇ ἄ. πυαλίδι CIG (add.)4224e (Cragus): c. gen., “ἄ. Χίου” Act.Ap.20.15, cf. PTeb.395.4(ii A.D.), etc.—Gramm. distinguish ἀντικρύ, = ἐξ ἐναντίας, and ἄντικρυς, = φανερῶς, διαρρήδην, cf. AB408, but ἀντικρύ (q.v.) has both senses in Hom. (-κρυ（ς) prob. akin to κέρας, κάρα.）
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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