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μεθίστημι :
A. causal, in pres. and impf., fut. and aor. 1, place in another way, change, τοι ταῦτα μεταστήσω I will change thee this present, i. e. give another instead, Od.4.612; “μ. τὰ νόμιμα πάντα” Hdt.1.65; ὄνομα, τύχην, E.Ba.296, Heracl.935; “τὸ μέγα εἰς οὐδὲν χρόνος μ.” Id.Fr.304 (lyr.); “μ. νόμους” X.HG5.4.64; “ταύτην τὴν πολιτείαν” Pl.R.562c; “ἐκ τοῦ παρόντος κόσμου τὴν πόλιν μεταστήσας” Th.8.48; ἐς ὀλιγαρχίαν μ. [τὴν πολιτείαν] X.HG2.3.24; ἐξ ὀλιγαρχίας ἐς τὸ δημοκρατεῖσθαι μ. τοὺς Βυζαντίους ib.4.8.27; τὰ ἐκεῖ πάντα πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους ib.2.2.5; also ἐκ τῆς καθεστηκυίας ἄλλην μ. [πολιτείαν] introduce a new polity, Arist.Pol.1301b8; “μ. βασιλείαν ἀντὶ τυραννίδος” Pl.Ep.319d.
2. c. gen. partit., οὐ μεθίστησι τοῦ χρώματος he changes [nothing] of his colour, Ar.Eq.398 (lyr.).
II. of persons, set free, “τινὰ νόσου” S.Ph.463; κακῶν, πόνων, E.Hel.1442, IT991, cf. 775; “ὕπνου” Id.Or.133.
2. remove by killing, “αὑτόν” J.AJ18.6.2: so in Med., τὸν ἄνθρωπον ib.18.9.5.
3. remove from one place to another, Th.4.57; “ὠστράκιζον καὶ μεθίστασαν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως” Arist.Pol.1284a21; “ἐς ἄλλην χθόνα μ. πόδα” E.Ba.49:— aor. 1 Med. μεταστήσασθαι remove from oneself or from one's presence, Hdt.1.89, 8.101, And.1.12, Th.1.79; banish, Aeschin.3.129; “μ. φρουρὰς ἐκ πόλεων” Plb.18.44.4.
B. Pass., with aor. 1 μετεστάθην [α^] E.El.1202 (lyr.), D.26.6, also aor. 2, pf., and plpf. Act.:
I. of persons, stand among or in the midst of, c. dat., “ἑτάροισι μεθίστατο” Il.5.514.
2. change one's position, τυράννοις ἐκποδὼν μεθίστασο make way for them, E. Ph.40; depart, “παλαιὸν εἰς ἴχνος” A.Supp.538 (lyr.); “ἐκ τῆς τάξιος” Hdt.9.58; “ἐκ τυραννικοῦ κύκλου” S.Aj.750; “ἔξω τῆς οἰκουμένης” Aeschin. 3.165; “ἐκ φωτὸς εἰς σκότος μ.” Pl.R.518a: c. gen., “δεῦρ᾽ Ἰωλκίας χθονός” E.Med.551; “θρόνων” Id.Ph.75; “μ. φυγῇ” Id.Med.1295: abs., “μετάσταθ᾽, ἀπόβαθι” S.OC162 (lyr.), cf. D.23.69; ὅταν μεταστῇ [ὄλβος] S.Fr.646.6.
3. c. gen. rei, change, cease from, “κότου” A.Eu. 900; “ξηρῶν τρόπων” Ar.V.1451 (lyr.), cf. Pl.365; λύπης, κακῶν, E.Alc. 1122, Hel.856; μ. βίου die, Id.Alc.21 (also μ. alone, J.AJ17.4.2, Plu. 2.1104c; ἑκὼν μ. commit suicide, Vett. Val.94.9); μ. φρενῶν change from one's former mind, change one's mind, E.Ba.944.
4. go over to another party, revolt, Th.1.35, etc.; “ἀπό τινος” Id.8.76; παρά or πρός τινα, Id.1.107,130.
5. to be banished, “ὑπό τινων” D.26.6.
II. of things, change, alter, either for the better, “τῆς τύχης εὖ μετεστεώσης” Hdt.1.118; “ἐς τὸ λῷον . . μεθέστηκεν κέαρ” E.Med.911; or for the worse, ἐξ ἧς [πολιτείας] ἡ ὀλιγαρχία μετέστη from which oligarchy arose by a change, Pl.R.553e, cf. X.HG2.3.24, Arist.Pol.1301a22, Plb.6.9.10; εἴ τι μὴ δαίμων . . μεθέστηκε στρατῷ hath changed for them, A.Pers.158 (troch.); “νέος μεθέστηκ᾽ ἐκ γέροντος” E.Heracl.796.
2. Medic., of pains, change position, “εἰς τὴν ἄνω χώραν” Gal.16.652.
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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