ἀντίος

ἀντίος, ία, ίον, (ἀντί) 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 δʼ οὐκ ἀθρῆσαι δύνατʼ 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; κατʼ ἀντίον Hp. VC 11:—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 δʼ 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., ἀντίʼ 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 δʼ 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.