ἀντιλέγειν (antilegein)

ἀντιλέγειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντιλέγω, meaning “speak against, contradict”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 129 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.45.2: μηχανᾶται δὲ πρὸς αὐτοὺς τοιόνδε τι ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης· τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους πείθει πίστιν αὐτοῖς δούς, ἢν μὴ ὁμολογήσωσιν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ αὐτοκράτορες ἥκειν, Πύλον τε αὐτοῖς ἀποδώσειν (πείσειν γὰρ αὐτὸς Ἀθηναίους, ὥσπερ καὶ νῦν ἀντιλέγειν) καὶ τἆλλα ξυναλλάξειν.

Isocrates, Panathenaicus 108: … μαι τὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἣν ἐποιησάμην ἄλλων τε πολλῶν προσδεῖσθαι λόγων, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν ἐπιδειξόντων τὴν ἄνοιαν τῶν ἀντιλὲγειν τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐπιχειρησόντων· οὓς οἴομαι ῥᾳδίως εὑρήσειν.

All forms of ἀντιλέγω (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.