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|Definition=τροπική, τροπικόν, ([[τροπή]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[of the solstice]], ὁ τροπικός (''[[sc.]]'' [[κύκλος]]) the [[tropic]] or [[solstice]] as marked on the [[sphere]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''343a14 (with [[κύκλος]], Jul.''Or.''4.147c); [[τροπικὸς χειμερινός]] = [[tropic of Capricorn]], [[τροπικὸς θερινός]] = [[tropic of Cancer]], Porph.''Antr.''21; ζῶναι ''[[Placita Philosophorum|Placit.]]''3.11.4; [[οἱ τροπικοί]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[κύκλος|κύκλοι]]) [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''345a6, 346a14, al., cf. Arat. 528, Plu.2.429f; [[τὰ τροπικὰ ζῴδια]] the [[signs of the zodiac in which the solstices and the equinoxes are situated]], S.E.''M.''5.6; so τροπικὰ 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.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of [[time]], [[of the solstice]] or [[at the solstice]], αἱ τροπικαὶ ἡμέραι, οἱ τροπικοὶ μῆνες[[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]'' 544a33, 558b14.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Rhet., [[tropical]], [[figurative]], [[τροπικὴ λέξις]] a [[figurative]] [[expression]], D.H.''Th.''23, etc.; [[τὸ ποιητικὸν καὶ τροπικόν]] = [[the poetic and figured style]] Phld.''Rh.''1.157 S.; [[αἱ τροπικαί]] = [[trope]]s, Longin.32.6. Adv. [[τροπικῶς]] = [[figuratively]], [[allegorically]], [[by means of a metaphor]] Phld.''Rh.''1.154 S., Ath.3.76c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Stoic Logic [[τροπικόν]] = [[συνημμένος|συνημμένον]] ἢ [[διεζευγμένος|διεζευγμένον]] [[ἀξίωμα]] (v. [[συνάπτω]] A. ΙΙΙ.3, [[διαζεύγνυμι]] 1), ''Stoic.''2.77, al., Arr ''Epict.''1.29.40.