ἀντί,
preposition governing genitive:—originally sense, over against. (Cf. Sanskrit ánti 'opposite', 'facing', Latin ante, etc.)
__A USAGE:
__A.I of Place, opposite, over against, formerly quoted from several places of [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, as 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.481 ἀντὶ ἐμεῖο (where now ἀντί᾽ ἐμεῖο, i.e. ἀντία) Τρώων ἄνθ᾽ ἑκατόν (i.e. ἄντα) 8.233] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so ἄντ᾽ Αἴαντος (i.e. ἄντα)[[ 15.415, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.115, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 727] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἀντί is so used in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.6, “IG” 2.835] Refs 5th c.BC+]c-l68; αἱ ὀπαὶ αἱ γιγνόμεναι ἀ. τόρμων mortises facing tenons, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 97.5] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἀντὶ μαιτύρων in the presence of witnesses, [[ “Leg.Gort.” 1.40; ἀντὶ τῆς ὄψεως ἡμῶν 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus “Ars astronomica” 18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.II of Time, ἀντὶ νυκτός the same night, [[ “SIG” 1025.43 (from Cos)] Refs]; ἀντὶ ϝέτεος[[ “GDI” 2561 A 45 (Delph.); ἀντ᾽ ἐνιαυτοῦ “IG” 5(2).266.8 (Mantinea, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀνθ᾽ ἡμέρας· δι᾽ ὅλης τῆς ἡμέρας, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; compare ἀντετοῦς.
__A.III instead, in the place of, Ἕκτορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.254; ἀντὶ γάμοιο τάφον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.307; so later πολέμιος ἀντὶ φίλου καταστῆναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.87; ἀντὶ ἡμέρης νὺξ ἐγένετο [prev. author] 7.37; ἀντὶ φωτῶν σποδός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 434; τὸν πόλεμον ἀντ᾽ εἰρήνης μεταλαμβάνειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, compare 4.20, 7.75; βασιλεύειν ἀντί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.1.4; also ἀντὶ ἄρχεσθαι ὑπ᾽ ἄλλων ἄρχειν ἁπάντων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210, compare 6.32, 7.170 (where the usual _construction_ would be ἀντὶ τοῦ ἄρχεσθαι,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.28, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.19, etc.); ὀργίλοι ἀντὶ θυμοειδοῦς γεγένηνται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 411c] Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes used elliptically, ἦ 'τολμήσατ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ἐμοῦ δοῦναί τιν; i.e. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐμοὶ δοῦναι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 369, compare “OC” 448, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 58. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]