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|Definition=πολύτροπον, ([[τρέπω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[much-turned]], i.e. [[much-travelled]], [[much-wandering]], [[epithet]] of [[Odysseus]], Od.1.1, 10.330.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[turning many ways]]: metaph., [[shifty]], [[versatile]], [[wily]], of [[Hermes]], ''h.Merc.''13,439; τοῖς ἀσθενέσι καὶ π. θηρίοις [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Politicus|Plt.]]'' 291b; and in this sense [[Plato]] took the word as applied to [[Odysseus]], ''Hp.Mi.''364e (Sup.), al.; [[τὸ πολύτροπον]] τῆς [[γνώμη]]ς their [[versatility]] of [[mind]], Th.3.83; [[τὸ πολύτροπον]], of [[Alcibiades]], Plu.''Alc.'' 24.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[fickle]], [[ὅμιλος]] Ps.-Phoc.95.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of diseases, [[changeful]], [[complicated]], Plu.''Num.''22; also [[πόλεμος]] τοῖς πάθεσι ποικίλος καὶ ταῖς τύχαις πολυτροπώτατος Id.''Mar.''33; [[στρατεία]] Eun.''Hist.'' p.223D.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[various]], [[manifold]], ξυμφοραί Th.2.44; [[ἐπιθυμία]]ι, [[ἐθισμός|ἐθισμοὶ]] τῶν λέξεων, Epicur.''Fr.''471, ''Nat.''28.1 (p.7V.); κακά Ph.2.567; ἔθνη Plu.''Marc.''12; τύχαι Id.''Alc.''2; ὄργια ''Lyr.Alex.Adesp.''36.3; τὸ π. Phld.''Sign.''26. Adv. [[πολυτρόπως]] = [[in many manners]], Meno ''Iatr.''20.31, Ph.2.512, ''Ep.Hebr.''1.1, Iamb.''Comm.Math.''12: Comp., πολυτροπωτέρως καὶ ποικιλωτέρως Epicur.''Nat.''5 G.