τροπικός
καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος → Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?
English (LSJ)
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.
