ἀντέχεσθαι (antechesthai)

ἀντέχεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντέχω, meaning “hold out, resist”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 15.4: οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς γῆς συνεβούλευεν ἀντέχεσθαι τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἀγραύλου προβαλλόμενον ἀεὶ τοῖς ἐφήβοις ὅρκον ἔργῳ βεβαιοῦν. ὀμνύουσι γὰρ ὅροις χρήσασθαι τῆς Ἀττικῆς πυροῖς, κριθαῖς, ἀμπέλοις, ἐλαίαις, οἰκείαν ποιεῖσθαι διδασκόμενοι τὴν ἥμερον καὶ καρποφόρον.

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 2.11: … ις τοιαύτη τις ἦν· Ἔδοξε, φησί, τοῖς ἀνοήτοις τῶν ὄντων μὲν καταφρονεῖν ὡς μὴ ὄντων, τῶν μὴ ὄντων δὲ ὡς ὄντων ἀντέχεσθαί τε καὶ περιέχεσθαι· ὁ μὴ γευσάμενος οὖν τῆς τῶν ὄντων γλυκύτητος, οὐ δυνήσεται τῶν μὴ ὄντων καταμαθεῖν τὴν φύ …

All forms of ἀντέχω (conjugation table)

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.