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ἀνθ-ίστημι ,
A.set against, Th.4.115; esp. in battle, “πελταστικὴν τῆ τοῦ παγκρατίου μάχῃ” Pl.Lg.834a; ἀ. τροπαῖον set up a trophy in opposition, Th.1.54,105; weigh against, Ar.Ra. 1389; ἀ. τινὸς τὴν ὁλκήν outweigh him, LXX.Si.8.2.
2. match with, compare, “ἀντιστῆσαι καὶ παραβαλεῖν” Plu.Thes.1.
II. Hom. uses only Pass., with intr. aor. 2 ἀντέστην. aor. 1 Pass. “ἀντεστάθην” Hdt.5.72: pf. “ἀνθέστηκα” Ep.Rom.9.19; Att. contr. part. “ἀνθεστώς” Th.6.70: fut. “ἀντιστήσομαι” Hdt.8.75, S.OC645:—stand against, esp. in battle, withstand, “Ἥρῃ δ᾽ ἀντέστη . . Ἄρτεμις” Il.20.70, cf. 72, Hdt.6.117 al.; “τοὺς ἀνθισταμένους τοῖς ὑμετέροις βουλήμασι” D.18.49; “πρὸς τὴν ἀνάγκην οὐδ᾽ Ἄρης ἀ.” S.Fr.256, cf. Th.1.93, X.Smp.5.1: rarely c. gen., “δέος . . σοὶ φρενῶν ἀνθίσταται” A.Pers.703 (ἀνθάπτεται Wakef.), cf. Q.S.1.520.
2. of things, turn out unfavourably to one, “ἀντιστάντος αὐτῷ τοῦ πράγματος” Th.5.4, cf. 38; “ἄν τὰ παρ᾽ ὑμῶν τῶν ἀκουόντων ἀντιστῇ” D.19.340.
3. abs., make a stand, “ἀλλ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀνθίσταντο” Il.16.305; resist, fight on, Hdt.5.72, etc.; “ὑπέρ τινος” S.Aj.1231, Ant.518.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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