τρέπειν

From LSJ

κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν τὴν μήτε πλουσίους ἄγαν μήτε πένητας ἔχουσαν πολίτας → the best democracy is that in which the citizens are neither very rich nor very poor (Thales/Plutarch)

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also τρέπω): repulse, rout, turn, drive back, make to recoil, put to flight

Lexicon Thucydideum

vertere, to turn, 1.71.4, 3.13.1. 3.39.4, 4.76.2, 6.35.1,
in fugam, to flight, 1.62.6, [vulgo commonly ἐτρέψαντο] 2.79.6, 3.90.3, 3.103.1. 3.108.1. 3.112.5. 4.25.9. 4.11.1. 4.33.2. 4.43.4. 4.72.2, 4.101.4. 4.124.3. 4.130.5, 4.134.1. 5.10.6. 5.10.9. 5.72.3. 5.72.35.4.1, 5.73.4. 5.73.46.101.5. 7.6.3. 7.23.3. 7.43.5. 7.43.7. 7.53.2. 7.71.5. 8.105.3.
MED.
a) active, actively convertere, to turn, 1.140.1,
in fugam vertere, to put to flight, 1.49.5, 6.98.4, 7.51.2. 7.78.3. 7.79.5, 8.55.3.
b) neutr. neuter convertere se, to turn oneself, 1.5.1, 1.11.1. 1.20.3, 1.50.1. 1.50.3. 1.72.1, 2.25.2. 2.40.2, 2.51.4, 2.52.3, 2.52.4. 2.84.3, 3.39.6, 3.55.1. 3.61.1. 4.104.2, 4.120.2, 5.9.3, 5.29.1. 5.31.3. 5.88.1, 5.110.2. 5.111.3, 5.114.1, 6.17.4, 6.51.1, 6.77.2. 6.89.3. 6.99.2. 7.71.3, 7.73.2, 7.75.4, 8.5.4. 8.50.1,
similiter similarly 8.56.2. 8.66.5, 8.92.4.
viam capere, ingredi, to take to flight, flee, 1.59.2, 3.24.1, 3.112.6, 4.112.3, 5.10.10, 5.27.2, 5.58.4, 8.3.1,
coepisse, to have begun, 2.65.10,
terga dare, to turn in flight, 2.4.2, 3.98.1. 4.44.1. 4.54.2. 5.73.3, 7.41.1. 8.95.5,
confugere, to take refuge, 2.92.1, 3.112.7,
PASS. sententiam mutare, to change one's mind, 4.106.2,
vergere, spectare, to incline towards, face, 2.15.3, 2.55.1, 4.9.2, 4.54.1, 4.76.4. 4.109.3. 7.58.2, [praeterea vulgo moreover in the common texts 7.49.2, ubi nunc where now θρέψονται.]