Ἀντιβόλησις
prayer
Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 May 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] summons, supplication.1
Thucydides [writes]: "for having turned to prayer and entreaty they reduced [the rest] to despair, as they begged to be taken with them."2
Also [sc. attested is]a)ntibolh=sai ["to meet"], [meaning] to encounter, to take part in.3
Also [sc. attested is]a)ntibolw= ["I entreat"], [meaning] I supplicate.
It is formed froma)/ntomai ["I meet"] and ba/llw ["I hit"].4
Thucydides [writes]: "for having turned to prayer and entreaty they reduced [the rest] to despair, as they begged to be taken with them."2
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It is formed from