Socratos Sign in

ἀντειπεῖν (anteipein)

ἀντειπεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντεῖπον, meaning “speak against, reply”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 125 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65.8: … ὰ τὸ μὴ κτώμενος ἐξ οὐ προσηκόντων τὴν δύναμιν πρὸς ἡδονήν τι λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ἔχων ἐπ’ ἀξιώσει καὶ πρὸς ὀργήν τι ἀντειπεῖν.

Isocrates, Against Callimachus 36: … γχάνοντας κολάζετε. ἐγὼ δʼ οὔθʼ ὑμᾶς ταύτην ἔχειν τὴν γνώμην ἡγοῦμαι, πρὸς τε τοὺς ὑπειρημένους λόγους ῥᾲδιον ἁντειπεῖν νομίζω.

All forms of ἀντεῖπον (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.