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|mdlsjtxt=<br />A. Causal, in pres. and imperf., fut. and aor1, to [[place]] in [[another]] way, to [[change]], [[μεταστήσω]] τοι [[ταῦτα]] I [[will]] [[give]] thee [[another]] [[present]] [[instead]] of [[this]], Od.; μ. τὰ [[νόμιμα]] πάντα Hdt.; [[ὄνομα]] etc., Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. gen. partit., οὐ μεθίστησι τοῦ χρώματος he changes [[nothing]] of his [[colour]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of persons, to set [[free]], νόσου from [[disease]], Soph.; κακῶν, ὕπνου Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[remove]], Eur., Thuc.:—so in aor1 mid., μεταστήσασθαι to [[remove]] from [[oneself]] or from one's [[presence]], Hdt., Thuc., etc.<br />B. Pass., aor1 [[μετεστάθην]] [ᾰ], with aor2, perf., and plup. act.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[stand]] [[among]] or in the [[midst]] of, ἑτάροισι μεθίστατο Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[change]] one's [[position]], [[remove]], [[depart]], Hdt., Attic; μ. τυράννοις [[ἐκποδών]] to make way for them, Eur.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. gen. rei, to [[change]] or [[cease]] from, κότου Aesch.; λύπης, κακῶν Eur.; μ. βίου to die, Eur.; μ. φρενῶν to go mad, Eur.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to go [[over]] to [[another]] [[party]], to [[revolt]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of things, to [[change]], [[alter]], [[sometimes]] for the [[better]], τῆς τύχης εὖ μετεστεώσης Hdt.; or for the [[worse]], [[δαίμων]] μεθέστηκε στρατῷ [[fortune]] hath changed for the [[army]], Aesch.