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substitute

substitute
v. trans.
Change:
P. and V. μεταλλάσσειν, διαλλάσσειν, ἀνταλλάσσειν, ἀ̆μείβειν (Plat. but rare P.).
Choose instead:
P. and V. ἀνθαιρεῖσθαι.
Introduce instead:
P. ἀντεισάγειν.
Give in exchange:
P. and V. ἀντῐδῐδόναι (Eur. I.T. 28).
Substitute a child
(by fraud): P. and V. ὑ̆ποβάλλεσθαι.
substitute
subs.
Use V. adj. ἀντίσταθμος (Soph. El. 571).
Successor:
use P. and V. adj., διά̆δοχος.
Changeling:
V. διάλλαγμα, τό, or use P. adj. ὑποβολιμαῖος.
The multitude is but a sorry kind of substitute for a true friend:
V. ἀλόγιστον δέ τι τὸ πλῆθος ἀντάλλαγμα γενναίου φίλου (Eur. Or. 1156).
The goddesses promised me that Admetus should escape immediate death, if he found a substitute to die for him and satisfy the nether powers:
V. ᾔνεσαν δέ μοι θεαὶ Ἄδμητον ᾍδην τὸν παραυτίκʼ ἐκφυγεῖν ἄλλον διαλλάξαντα τοῖς κάτω νεκρόν (Eur. Alc. 12).

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