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