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|Definition=ή, όν, ([[τροπή]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[of the solstice]], ὁ τροπικός (''[[sc.]]'' [[κύκλος]]) the [[tropic]] or [[solstice]] as marked on the [[sphere]], Arist.''Mete.''343a14 (with [[κύκλος]], Jul.''Or.''4.147c); <b class="b3">τροπικὸς χειμερινός, τροπικὸς θερινός</b>, Porph.''Antr.''21; ζῶναι ''Placit.''3.11.4; <b class="b3">οἱ τροπικοί</b> (''[[sc.]]'' [[κύκλοι]]) Arist.''Mete.''345a6, 346a14, al., cf. Arat. 528, Plu.2.429f; <b class="b3">τὰ τροπικὰ ζῴδια</b> 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]], <b class="b3">αἱ τ. ἡμέραι, οἱ τροπικοὶ μῆνες</b>, Arist.''HA'' 544a33, 558b14.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Rhet., [[tropical]], [[figurative]], <b class="b3">τροπικὴ λέξις</b> a [[figurative]] [[expression]], D.H.''Th.''23, etc.; τὸ ποιητικὸν καὶ τροπικόν Phld.''Rh.''1.157 S.; αἱ τ. [[trope]]s, Longin.32.6. Adv. [[τροπικῶς]] 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.