ἀντεῖπον,
aorist 2 without any present (compare ἀντερῶ, ἀντιλέγω, ἀνταγορεύω), speak against or in answer, gainsay, with dative, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 999, etc.; ἀ. τινὶ δεομένῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.136: _absolutely_, οὐδὲν ἀντειπεῖν ἔχω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 51] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. πρός τινα or τι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.3] Refs 5th c.BC+]; oppose, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theages” 131a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ὑπέρ τινος speak in one's defence, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 545: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἀ. ἔπος] Refs 5th c.BC+] utter a word of contradiction, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1391] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δύο λόγω περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀντειπεῖν speak on both sides of a question, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.1; τούτῳ ἂν δίκαιον λόγον ἀντείποιμι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 28b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 κακῶς ἀ. τινά malign him in turn, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1053.] Refs 5th c.BC+]