μεταβολή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[change]], [[changing]], μεταβολαὶ ἱστίων <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.292</span>; ἱματίων μεταβολαί <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Lac.</span>2.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[exchange]], [[barter]], <b class="b3">ἐπὶ μεταβολῇ</b> with a view to [[traffic]], <span class="bibl">Th.6.31</span>: metaph., οὔ τιν' ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν κακῶν ἀλλὰ μ. μειζόνων <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Fr.</span>479</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[turnover]] in business, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>5.495.20</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[payment by transfer in an account]], PLond.3.1129b7 (ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> (from Med.) [[transition]], [[change]], <b class="b3">ἀρχὰ κινήσιος καὶ μεταβολᾶς</b> [Philol.] <span class="bibl">21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.2.160</span>; μετάστασις καὶ μ. <span class="bibl">D.2.13</span>; ἐκ μεταβολῆς <span class="bibl">Men.712</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.61.7</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.13.24</span>; πάλιν ἐκ μ. <span class="bibl">Aeschin. 2.9</span>: freq. in pl., [[changes]], [[vicissitudes]], τῶν ὡρέων <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.77</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>596b23</span>; τῆς τύχης <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>554</span>; αἱ μ. κάτω τε καὶ ἄνω γιγνόμεναι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>43b</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.4.9</span>; αἱ πλεῖσται μ. μάλιστα τέρπουσιν <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Vict.</span>1.18</span>; ἦμαρ &lt;ἕν&gt; τοι μ. πολλὰς ἔχει <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>549</span>; τῆς γῆς ἡ ἀρίστη αἰεὶ τὰς μ. τῶν οἰκητόρων εἶχεν <span class="bibl">Th.1.2</span>: c. gen. objecti, [[change from]] a thing, μεταβολὰ κακῶν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>735</span>; rarely, [[change to]]... ἀπραγμοσύνης μ. <span class="bibl">Th.6.18</span>: more freq. with Preps., μ. ἐκ φιλοτίμου εἰς φιλοχρήματον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>553d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐκ προστάτου ἐπὶ τύραννον</b> ib.<span class="bibl">565d</span>; ἐκ τοῦ εἶναι ἐπὶ τὸ μὴ εἶναι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Prm.</span>162c</span>; ἡ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον μ. <span class="bibl">Diph.104</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ ἐναντία μ</b>. [[change to]] the contrary, <span class="bibl">Th.2.43</span>; <b class="b3">ἅμα τῇ μ. τῇ ἐς Ἕλληνας</b> their [[going over]] to the Greeks, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.57</span>; ἡ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους μ. <span class="bibl">Plb.9.26.2</span>; μ. μεταβάλλειν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>404a</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1449a14</span>: prov., μ. πάντων γλυκύ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>234</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1371a28</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.207.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[eclipse]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.74</span>; but <b class="b3">μ. ἄστρων καὶ ἡλίου</b> [[reversal]] of motion, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>271c</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">αἱ μ. τῶν πολιτειῶν</b> [[changes]] of government, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1292b18</span>; [[πολιτῶν]] (v.l. -ειῶν) <span class="bibl">Th.6.17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[migration]], [τὰ ζῷα] ποιούμενα τὰς μ. <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>597a3</span>: euphemism for [[death]], <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>8.31</span>, <span class="title">Corp.Herm.</span>11.15,12.6. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> as Military term, [[wheeling about]], being a double κλίσις, ἡ εἰς τοὔπισθεν μ. <span class="bibl">Plb.18.30.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> of literary style, [[variety]], Caecil.Calact. ap. Quint.9.3.38; μ. καὶ ποικίλον <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Pomp.</span>3</span>: pl., Longin.5, 23.1. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">7</span> in Music, [[modulation]], e.g. of [[τόνος]] or [[γένος]], <span class="bibl">Aristox.<span class="title">Harm.</span>p.38</span> M., <span class="bibl">Cleonid.<span class="title">Harm.</span>13</span>, <span class="bibl">Bacch.<span class="title">Harm.</span>50</span>, Aristid. Quint.1.11, <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Harm.</span>2.6</span>.</span>