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Headword: Antitupêsai
Adler number: alpha,2733
Translated headword: to resist, to strike against
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to oppose. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)ntitupi/a ["resistance"], [meaning] opposition, rigidity. It is also used for similarity.[1]
In the Epigrams: "the stone that produces fire in resistance to striking."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)nti/tupon ["repellant"]: "'although every sensation possesses some particular origin, the sense of touch does not possess a single common origin from tangible things,' says Aristotle. Because even though it concerns itself with a particular kind of tangible thing, yet one sort which is not visible falls under the category of touch; through this [touch] it is obvious that it [this sort of thing] exists, although it does not appear. What then is this? We say that it is resistance. But I say that resistance is not the opposite of 'softness' and that it does not give way to touch, but that every physical body which encounters and makes contact with the sense of touch [is] in opposition to mathematical bodies which do not make contact with or resist the sense of touch. So we say that which somehow offers resistance to the sense of touch is 'resistant' [a)nti/tupon] and this is the common origin of tangible things."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)nti/tupoi a)/nqrwpoi ["resistant men"], [meaning those who are] hard and unyielding.[4] [The phrase arises] metaphorically from the thunderbolt and the hammer. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] tu/pos a)nti/tupos ["blow [and] counter-blow"]. The oracle says [this].[5]
Greek Original:
Antitupêsai: antipathêsai. kai Antitupia, enantiôsis, sklêrotês. lambanetai de kai epi homoiotêtos. en Epigrammasi: kai lithon antitupôi kroumati pursotokon. kai Antitupon: pasês aisthêseôs peri hen ti genos echousês hê aphê ouk echei peri hen koinon genos tôn haptôn, phêsin Aristotelês. hoti kai autê kataginetai peri hen ti genos tôn haptôn: all' ouk estin eudêlon to hen genos to têi haphêi hupokeimenon: dia de toutou esêmanen, hoti esti men, ou phaneroi de. ti oun touto esti; legomen hoti to antitupon. antitupon de legô ou to antikeimenon tôi malakôi kai mê hupeikon têi haphêi, alla pan phusikon sôma to prospipton kai thinganon tês haphês pros antidiastolên tôn mathêmatikôn sômatôn, ha ou thinganei oude antibainei têi haphêi. to oun hopôsoun antibainon têi haphêi touto phamen antitupon, kai koinon einai genos tôn haptôn. kai Antitupous anthrôpous, sklêrous kai anendotous. metaphorikôs apo tou akmonos kai tês sphuras. kai tupos antitupos. phêsin ho chrêsmos.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from somewhere, is the aorist active infinitive of a)ntitupe/w; and the first paragraph of the present entry is also in Photius and other lexica.
[1] In the sense of "reflection".
[2] That is, flint: Greek Anthology 6.27.4 (Theaetetus Scholasticus). Find further extracts from this epigram, wherein a retiring fisherman dedicates his equipment, at beta 539 and epsilon 3990.
[3] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 410.36-411.10; cf. alpha 3711.
[4] The phrase occurs in Plato, Theaetetus 155E (web address 1 below), and these are the glosses of scholiasts there.
[5] Herodotus 1.67.4 (web address 2 below); Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Tegea.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 26 March 2001@17:09:50.
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