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τροπαία (sc. πνοή), ἡ,
A.an alternating wind, esp. one which blows back from sea to land, opp. ἀπογεία, Arist.Pr.940b22, 945a6, Thphr. Vent.31,53; tropaei (venti), Plin.HN2.114; τ. is said to have meant ἡ ἐναντία πνοή in S.Fr.1103 (where τριπαία, τρίπαια, τριπαῖα codd.).
II. metaph., λήματος, φρενὸς τροπαία, a change in the spirit of one's heart or mind, A.Th.706, Ag.219 (both lyr.); but τ. κακῶν a change from, release from . . , Id.Ch.775.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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