ἀντʼ (ant)

ἀντʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντί, meaning “instead of, against (+gen.)”. It is the preposition.

It can also be a form of ἄντα, “opposite, face to face”.

Found 390 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.30: τόνδε τοι ἀντʼ ἐμέθεν ταναὸν πλόκον εἶμι λιποῦσα,

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.40.2: … ν, ἀλλ’ ὅστις μὴ ἄλλου ἑαυτὸν ἀποστερῶν ἀσφαλείας δεῖται καὶ ὅστις μὴ τοῖς δεξαμένοις, εἰ σωφρονοῦσι, πόλεμον ἀντ’ εἰρήνης ποιήσει· ὃ νῦν ὑμεῖς μὴ πειθόμενοι ἡμῖν πάθοιτε ἄν.

Hesiod, Works and Days 727: μηδʼ ἄντʼ ἠελίου τετραμμένος ὀρθὸς ὀμιχεῖν·

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.