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ἐπι-στρέφω , pf.
A.“ἐπέστροφα” Diog. (v. infr. 1.2a):—turn about, turn round, νῶτον Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141; “δεῦρ᾽ ἐ. κάρα” E.Heracl.942, cf. X.Cyn.10.12; “στροφεῖς” HeroAut. 23.3; ἐ. τὰς ναῦς tack (cf. “ἐπιστροφή” 11.1), Th.2.90; also, put an enemy to flight, X.HG6.4.9; wheel about, “τοὺς ἱππεῖς” Plu.Sull.19; wheel through a right angle, Ascl.Tact.10.5 (Act. and Pass.), etc.; intr., ib.12.11, etc.
b.. intr., turn about, turn round, ἕλκε δ᾽ “ἐπιστρέψας” Il.3.370; here only in Hom., and perh. trans., whirl, but v. Hdt.2.103, S.Tr.566; “ἀλλὰ πᾶς ἐπίστρεφε δεῦρο” Ar.V.422; of ships, put about, Plb.1.47.8,50.5; of a wild boar, turn upon the hunter, “ἐπί τινα” X.Cyn.10.15; return, ἀπὸ τῆς στρατείας Epist. Philipp. in IG9(2).517.37 (Larissa), cf. Ev.Matt.12.44, etc.; of an illness, recur, f.l. for ὑπο-, Hp.Coac.124: as Hebraism, c. inf., as periphrasis of “πάλιν, ἐπιστρέψει . . εὐφρανθῆναι” LXXDe.30.9, cf. 2 Es. 9.14, al.; so with καί and finite Verb, ἐπέστρεψεν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ib.2 Ch.33.3, cf. Ma.1.4, al.
2.. turn towards, “νόημα” Thgn.1083; “ἦθος κατά τινα” Id.213; ἐ. τινά turn his attention towards one, Luc. Tim.11; τινὰ πρός τι, εἰς ἑαυτόν, Plu.2.21c,69f, cf. Hdn.5.3.8; οἱ τὴν “Ἑλλάδα ἐπεστροφότες ἐπὶ σοφίαν” Diog.Ep.34.1; ἐ. πίστιν press a pledge upon one, S.Tr.1182; ἐ. τὴν φάλαγγα bring it into action, Plu. Ant.42: hence,
b.. intr., turn (oneself) towards, X.Eq.8.12, etc.; ἐ. εἰς or πρὸς ἑαυτόν, of νοῦς, reflect, Plot.5.3.1, Procl.Inst.15; τὸ ἐπιστρέφον βαθρικόν the steps leading to the sarcophagus, Judeich Altertümervon Hierapolis 152.
3.. turn or convert from an error, correct, cause to repent, Luc.Hist.Conscr.5, Plu.Alc.16; “πλημμελοῦντας” Id.Cat.Mi.14; warn, Philostr.VS1.7.1; coerce, Cod.Just.4.20.15.1.
b.. Pass., to be converted, return, “ἐπὶ Κύριον” LXXDe.30.2; intr., repent, ib.Ju.5.19, al., Ev.Matt.13.15,Ev.Luc.22.32, etc.
c.. Philos., cause to return to the source of Being, “τινὰς εἰς τὰ ἐναντία καὶ τὰ πρῶτα” Plot. 5.1.1; “τι πρὸς τἀγαθόν” Procl.Inst.144:—Pass., Plot.1.2.4, 5.2.1; τὸ “προϊὸν ἀπό τινος -στρέφεται πρὸς ἐκεῖνο ἀφ᾽ οὗ πρόεισιν” Procl.Inst.31; “πρὸς τὸ ἕν” Dam.Pr.27:—also intr. in Act., “ἐ. εἰς ἑαυτόν” Plot.5.3.6; τὸ γεννηθὲν φύσει πρὸς τὸ γεννῆσαν ἐ. Porph.Sent.13; οὐδὲν τῶν σωμάτων πρὸς ἑαυτὸ πέφυκεν ἐ. Procl.Inst.15.
4.. curve, twist, ὀδύνη σε περὶ τὰ σπλάγχν᾽ ἔοικ᾽ ἐπιστρέφειν v.l. in Ar.Pl.1131; “ἐ. ἐπισκύνιον” AP11.376.8 (Agath.):—Pass., to be distorted, “ἢν τράχηλος ἐπιστραφῇ” Hp. Aph.4.35; of hair, curl, “οἷς ἐπέστραπται τὸ τρίχιον” Arist.Pr.963b10; ἐπεστραμμένος, of a tree, crooked, Thphr.HP3.8.4; of fir-needles, bent, ib.3.9.6.
II.. Med. and Pass., esp. in aor. 2 Pass. ἐπεστράφην [α^], also “ἐπεστρέφθην” Opp.C.4.179: Dor. 3sg. fut. Pass. “-στραφησεῖται” GDI3089.27（Callatis):—turn oneself round, turn about, ἤϊε ἐπιστρεφόμενος constantly turning, as if to look behind one, Hdt. 3.156: and with acc., πολλὰ θάλαμον ἐξιοῦσ᾽ ἐπεστράφη turned to gaze on it, E.Alc.187; so of a lion retreating, Arist.HA629b15; δι᾽ οὗ πάσας ἐπιστρέφεσθαι τὰς περιφοράς by which all the revolving spheres are turned, Pl.R.616c; δόξα τῇδ᾽ ἐπεστράφη thus turned about, changed, S.Ant.1111.
2.. go back-and forwards, “πάντῃ” h.Hom.27.10; κατ᾽ “ἄλσος” A.Supp. 508: c.acc., γαῖαν ἐπιστρέφεται wanders over the earth, with collat. sense of observing, studying it, Hes.Th.753, Thgn.648; so “ἐ. ὀρέων κορυφάς” Anacr.2.4: also c. acc. loci, turn to a place, πόθεν γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐπεστράφης πέδον; E.Hel.83, cf. 89,768, Ion352 (also εἰς “χώρας” X.Oec.4.13): c.acc. cogn., [διεξόδους] ἐπιστρέφεσθαι walk in . . , Pl.Phdr.247a; of the sun, revolve, D.P.584.
3.. turn the mind towards, pay attention to, regard (cf. “ἐπιστροφή” 11.3), “τινός” Anacr.96, S. Ph.599, Phld.Lib.p.15 O., AP5.47 (Rufin.); τῶν ἰδίων οὐδὲν ἐ. Thgn. 440; “εἴς τι” Alex.Aphr.in Sens.57.18: abs., return to oneself, pay attention, “ἐπιστραφείς” Hdt.1.88; “οὐκ ἦλθες, . . οὐδ᾽ ἐπεστράφης” E.Rh. 400; οὐκ ἐπεστράφη, = οὐκ ἐφρόντισε (just above), D.23.136, cf. 10.9, AP11.319 (Autom.).
b.. conduct oneself, behave, “ἀξίως τᾶς τιμᾶς” SIG539A22 (Decr. Amphict., iii B.C.).
4.. c.acc., θεοῦ νιν κέλευσμ᾽ ἐπεστράφη turned against her, E.Andr.101 (lyr.).
5.. pf.part. Pass. ἐπεστραμμένος, = ἐπιστρεφής, earnest, vehement, “λέγειν ἐπεστραμμένα” Hdt.8.62; “ἀφέλεια -στραμμένη” Philostr.VS1.7.1.
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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