τροπικός

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ή, όν, (τροπή)

   A of the solstice, ὁ τ. (sc. κύκλος) the tropic or solstice as marked on the sphere, Arist.Mete.343a14 (with κύκλος, Jul.Or.4.147c); τ. χειμερινός, θερινός, Porph.Antr.21; ζῶναι Placit.3.11.4; οἱ τ. (sc. κύκλοι) Arist.Mete.345a6, 346a14, al., cf. Arat. 528, Plu.2.429f; τὰ τ. ζῴδια the signs of the zodiac in which the solstices and the equinoxes are situated, S.E.M.5.6; so τ. ζῷα Man.2.382; and abs., τροπικά Id.3.41, 6.359; but used of Cancer and Capricorn only, opp. ἰσημερινά (Aries and Libra), Ptol.Tetr.31, etc.    2 of Time, of or at the solstice, αἱ τ. ἡμέραι, οἱ τ. μῆνες, Arist.HA 544a33, 558b14.    II Rhet., tropical, figurative, τ. λέξις a figurative expression, D.H.Th.23, etc.; τὸ ποιητικὸν καὶ τ. Phld.Rh.1.157 S.; αἱ τ. tropes, Longin.32.6. Adv. -κῶς Phld.Rh.1.154 S., Ath.3.76c.    2 in Stoic Logic τροπικόν = συνημμένον ἢ διεζευγμένον ἀξίωμα (v. συνάπτω A. 111.3, διαζεύγνυμι 1), Stoic.2.77, al., Arr Epict.1.29.40.