μετάβασις
ἂν βούλησθε ἀκούειν καί μοι περιουσία ᾖ τοῦ ὕδατος → if you care to hear and if the water in the water-clock holds out, if you care to hear and if I have time enough for speaking
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ,
A moving over, shifting, e.g. of the body in walking, from one leg to the other, Hp.Mochl.20; change of position, Epicur.Ep.1p.16U.: pl., ib.p.17 U. 2 passing over, ἐς τὸ ἕτερον πλοῖον v.l. in Antipho 5.22; migration, change of residence, εἰς Κόρινθον ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν Plu.2.78d; μ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐπί . . BGU137.6 (ii A. D.). II change, τῶν πολιτειῶν γένεσις καὶ μ. Pl.Lg.676c; δοκεῖ ἡ μ. ἐντεῦθεν γίγνεσθαι Id.R.547c; τῶν νομίμων Arist.Pol.1303a22 (pl.); ἡ μ. ἐκ [τῶν φυτῶν] εἰς τὰ ζῷα συνεχής ἐστιν Id.HA588b11; μ. ἀπὸ ποιότητος εἰς ποιότητα Sor.2.15; αἱ τῆς τραγῳδίας μ. Arist.Po.1449a37; but ἡ μ. the reversal of fortune in a drama, ib.1455b28. III transition from one subject to another, Luc.Hist.Conscr.55; as a figure in Rhet., Quint.9.3.25. 2 inference or procedure by analogy, Phld. Rh.1.105 S., Sign.19, S.E.M.8.194; ἡ κατὰ τὸ ὅμοιον μ. Phld.Sign. 38, al.; also in Medicine, ἡ τοῦ ὁμοίου μ. Gal.1.118.
