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ἀμείβω [α^], Il., Trag.: Ep. impf.
A.ἄμειβονIl.14.381: fut. “-ψωA.Pr. 23: aor. ἤμειψα, Ep. ἄμειψα [α^] h.Cer.275, A.R.3.280; Dor. ἄμ [α_] Pi.P.5.38; Trag.:—Med., impf. ἠμειβόμην, Ep. “ἀμ-Il.3.171, etc.: fut. “ἀμείψομαιE.Supp.517: aor. ἠμειψάμην, Ep. and Ion. “ἀμ-Il.4.403, Hdt.1.37, al.:—Pass., fut. “ἀμειφθήσεταιHsch.: aor. ἠμείφθην AP7.589 (Agath.), 638 (Crin.), etc. (in med. sense, Pi.P.4.102, Theoc.7.27): pf. “ἤμειπταιGal.1.210: Ep. plpf. “ἄμειπτοNonn.D.44.241.—Verb and compds. are almost exclus. poet. and Ion., but used once or twice in Pl. and X., and late Prose.
A. Act., change, exchange, (not Od.), “ἔντε᾽ ἄμειβενIl.17.192, etc.: τί τινος, as γόνυ γουνὸς ἀμείβων changing one knee for other, i. e. walking slowly, ib.11.547, etc.:—so either,
3. in Att. often of Place, change it, so pass, cross, πορθμόν, πόρον, Id.Pers. 69, E.IA 144, etc.:—hence,
b. either pass out of a house, leave it, . στέγας, δώματα, S.Ph.1262, E.El.750; or pass into, enter it, “. θύραςHdt.5.72, cf. A.Ch.571: generally, “πόλιν ἐκ πόλεως .Pl.Sph. 224b, cf. Prm.138d; v. infr. B.11.2.
5. causal, make others change,τεύχε᾽ ἄμειβονIl.14.381; pass on, hand on from one to another,τέκνα . . διαδοχαῖς ἀμείβουσαι χεροῖνE.Hec.1159.
b. shift, dislodge,κακὸν κακῷAret.SD2.1.
6. rarely like Med. B.1.3, repay, return,. χάρινA.Ag.729, cf. Ch.793.
II. intr. in part., ἀμείβοντες , οἱ, the interchangers, i.e. rafters that meet and cross each other, Il.23.712, cf. Theo Sm.p.122 H., Nonn.D.37.588; ἐν ἀμείβοντι, = ἀμοιβάδις, Pi.N.11.42:—so prob. “ἀμείβει καινὸν ἐκ καινῶν τόδεsucceeds, E.Or.1503.
B. Med., change one with another, do in turn or alternately, abs., “ἀμειβόμενοι φυλακὰς ἔχονIl.9.471; “ἄειδον ἀμειβόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ1.604; “ὀρχείσθην . . ἀμειβομένωOd.8.379; ἀμειβόμενοι κατὰ οἴκους at every house in turn, 1.375, 2.140; “ἄρουραι ἀμειβόμεναιploughed and fallow in turn, Pi.N.6.9; so ἀμειβόμεναι ὁπλαῖς alternating, crosswise, of the motion of the legs in horses or oxen, Id.P.4.226; ἄλλα ἄλλοθεν ἀμείβεται now comes one thing, now another in turn, E.Hipp.1108; “ἀμείβεται μιάσματαId.Med.1267: c. part., θρῴσκων ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλον ἀμείβεται leaps in turn . . , Il.15.684:—. στενότητι vary in narrowness, X.Cyn.9.14.
4. purchase,λύχνονLib. Or.45.10.
III. surpass, outdo,μελισσᾶν πόνονPi.P.6.54.
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