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ἐπάλλ-αξις , εως, ἡ,
A.interweaving or dovetailing, Antipho Soph.20 (pl.); “αἱ ἐ. τοῦ χάρακος” Plb. 18.18.11; ἡ ἐ. τῶν δακτύλων crossing of two fingers so as to feel double, Arist.Metaph.1011a33, Insomn.460b20, Pr.958b14; linking together, Id.Mete.387a12.
2. overlapping of species, Id.GA732b15; confusion of different things, Str.12.8.2.
b. alternation, Pl. Sph.240c.
3. change, “θέσεως” Hierocl.in CA1p.419M.; “διαιτημάτων” Gal.6.59 (pl.); varieties of abnormal constitutions, ib.385 (pl.).
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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