A.change the dress of another, strip off his dress, τινα Plu. and Luc. ll.cc.; τὰ τοῦ πλησίον Max.Tyr.l.c.: c. dupl. acc., “τὸ λαμπρὸν σχῆμα μ. τινά” Hld.2.21: metaph., change, “τι εἴς τι” AP6.165 (Phal.):—Med., take off one's own dress, τὴν βασιλικὴν ἐσθῆτα μεταμφιασαμένη v.l. in Phylarch.30 J. (cf. sq.); “πορφυρίδα μεταμφιάσομαι” Luc.Herm.86 codd.; ἀποδυσάμενος τὸν Πυθαγόραν τίνα μετημφιάσω μετ᾽ αὐτόν; what body didst thou assume after him? Id.Gall. 19; μ. τὴν τύχην, τὸν βίον, Vett. Val.131.8, Procop.Arc.17.
μεταμφι-άζω (later μεταμφι-έζω Plu.2.340e, Luc.Nec.16: fut. -έσω Max. Tyr.21.1),
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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