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ἀντιστροφ-ή , ἡ,
A.a turning about:
I. in choruses and dances, strophic correspondence, D.H.Comp.25; in later writers, = ἀντίστροφος, ἡ (q.v.), Sch.Ar.Nu.595,al.
II. Rhet., repetition of closing words in successive members, Phld.Rh.1.195 S., Hermog.Id.1.12, cf, 2.1, Eust.945.60; “ἀ. τὸ ἐναντίον τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς” Alex.Fig.2.4.
2. inversion, of construction, e.g. ἠχῶν ἔπεσα for “πεσὼν ἤχησα” Phoeb. Fig.1.5.
3. Gramm., inversion of letters (e.g. ἀκήν, ἦκα), EM 424.8.
III. inversion, κατὰ τὴν ἀ. τῆς ἀναλογίας in inverse ratio, Arist.Ph.266b18:—in Logic, conversion of terms of a proposition, Id.APr.25a40; ἀ. δέχεσθαι to be convertible, ib.50b32.
b. Math., “τῶν θεωρημάτων ἡ ἀ.” Procl.in Euc.p.251 F., cf. Apollon.Perg.Con.2.49; ἀ. προηγουμένη complete conversion, Procl.in Euc.p.253F.; “ἀ. ἀξιωμάτων” Stoic.2.64; generally, “κατ᾽ -φήν” conversely, Metrod.Herc. 831.14.
2. retortion of an argument, Arist.APr.61a22.
3. change of a proposition into its opposite, ib.38a3,39a28.
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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    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 595
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 25
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