Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.set against, and so,

I. in local sense, face to face, opposite, “ἀντίοι ἔσταν ἅπαντες” Il.1.535; ἀντίος ἦλθε θέων went to meet them, 6.54; “ἡ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀθρῆσαι δύνατ᾽ ἀντίη” though she faced him, Od.19.478; esp. in battle, Il.11.216, etc.: “ἐχώρεον . . οἱ Πέρσαι ἀντίοι” Hdt.9.62; “ἐκ τοῦ ἀντίου προσφέρεσθαι” X.Cyr.1.4.8; ἀντίος ἐλαύνειν ibid.; “ἐκ τῆς ἀντίης προσπλέειν” Hdt.8.6; “κατ᾽ ἀντίον” Hp. VC11:—freq. c. gen., which often precedes, “Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίος ἐλθών” Il.11.231, cf. 5.301, 7.98; but also follows, “ἀ. ἦλθεν ἄνακτος” Od.16.14, cf. Il.17.31, etc.: less freq. in Hom. c. dat., “ὅς ῥά οἱ ἀ. ἦλθε” 15.584, cf. 7.20; but mostly so after Hom., “ἀντίαι ἵζοντο τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι” Hdt.5.18, cf. Pi.N.10.79, E.Supp.667, X.An.1.8.17, etc.; “ἀ. ἐς . .” h.Merc.345; = διάμετρος, Man.3.339.

b. direct, opp. πλάγιος, Antyll. ap. Orib.44.23.9, cf. Heliod.ib.28.

2. opposite, contrary, “τὸν ἀ. τοῖσδε λόγον” A.Ag.499; τούτοις ἀντία opinions opposed to these, E.Supp.466; ἁδεῖα μὲν ἀντία δ᾽ οἴσω with pleasure [I speak], though I shall offer reproof, S.Tr.122; οἱ ἀντίοι, = οἱ ἐναντίοι, Pi.P. 1.45 (so later, PTeb.43.21 (ii B.C.)); “εἰς τὸ ἀντίον” X.Eq.12.12; also λόγοι ἀντίοι ἢ οὓς ἤκουον words the very reverse of those I have heard, Id.An.6.6.34.

II. as Adv. in neut. ἀντία and ἀντίον, against, over against, abs., “ἀντίον ἷζεν” Od.14.79, cf. 17.334, etc.: more freq. like a Prep. c. gen., “ἀντἴ ἐμεῖο στήσεσθαι” Il.21.481; ἀντία δεσποίνης φάσθαι before her, Od.15.377; so ἀντία σευ in thy presence, Hdt.7.209, cf. 1.133; ἀντίον τοῦ μεγάρου facing it, Id.5.77; “τὰς καμήλους ἔταξε ἀντία τῆς ἵππου” Id.1.80, cf. 3.160, al.; “τἀνδρὸς ἀντίον μολεῖν” S.Tr.785: so,

2. against, “ὅς τις σέθεν ἀντίον εἴπῃ” Il.1.230; “ἀντίον αὐτῶν φωνὴν ἱέναι” Hdt.2.2; “ἐρίζειν ἀντία τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς” Pi.P.4.285: c. dat., “ἰέναι ἀντία τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι ἐς μάχην” Hdt.7.236; “ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν ἀντίον” Pi.N.1.25.

3. in the phrase “τὸν δ᾽ ἀντίον ηὔδα” answered, Od.15.48, etc. (more freq. in Od. than Il.).

4. ἀντία εἶναι to be present, help, of a god, Milet.7p.64 (ii/iii A.D.).—The word is almost confined to Poets and Ion. Prose; in Att. Prose ἐναντίος is preferred, though X. uses ἀντίος.