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μεταβι^β-άζω , Att. fut. -βιβῶ, causal of μεταβαίνω,
A.carry over, transfer, “τοὺς ἐπιβάτας ἐς κοίλην ναῦν” X.HG1.6.19; τὴν γλῶσσαν τῶν ταρσῶν, i. e. from ankle to ankle, Procop.Arc.4; “τινὰ ἐπὶ θάτερα” Pl.Lg. 795c; “εἰς ἀγαθά” Ar.Pax947 (lyr.); “τὸ ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν ἔθος ἐπὶ τὰ ἴδια” D.10.44; “μ. πόλεμον ἐπὶ τὴν Λιβύην” Plb.1.41.4; “τὸν λόγον ἐπί τι” D.S. 4.7; [“τὰς ψυχὰς] εἰς ἕτερον ἐξ ἑτέρου ζῷον” Diog.Oen.35.
2. lead in a different direction, “τὰς ἐπιθυμίας” Pl.Grg.517b: abs., “σμικρὸν μ.” Id.Lg.736d; change the course or form of an argument, Arist.Top.101a33, cf. 161a33.
3. translate, D.H.4.1 (Pass.).
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, Peace, 947
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 4, 44
    • Plato, Laws, 736d
    • Plato, Laws, 795c
    • Plato, Gorgias, 517b
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.6.19
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.41.4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.1
    • Procopius, Historia Arcana (Anecdota), 4
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