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μεταβολ-ή , ἡ,
A.change, changing, “μεταβολαὶ ἱστίων” Pi.P.4.292; “ἱματίων μεταβολαί” X.Lac.2.1.
2. exchange, barter, ἐπὶ μεταβολῇ with a view to traffic, Th.6.31: metaph., “οὔ τιν᾽ ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν κακῶν ἀλλὰ μ. μειζόνων” Epicur.Fr.479.
3. turnover in business, PSI5.495.20 (iii B. C.).
4. payment by transfer in an account, PLond.3.1129b7 (ii A. D.).
II. (from Med.) transition, change, ἀρχὰ κινήσιος καὶ μεταβολᾶς [Philol.] 21, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.160; “μετάστασις καὶ μ.” D.2.13; “ἐκ μεταβολῆς” Men.712, Plb.1.61.7, D.S.13.24; “πάλιν ἐκ μ.” Aeschin. 2.9: freq. in pl., changes, vicissitudes, “τῶν ὡρέων” Hdt.2.77, cf. Arist.HA596b23; “τῆς τύχης” E.Fr.554; “αἱ μ. κάτω τε καὶ ἄνω γιγνόμεναι” Pl.Phlb.43b, cf. Antipho 2.4.9; “αἱ πλεῖσται μ. μάλιστα τέρπουσιν” Hp.Vict.1.18; “ἦμαρ <ἕν> τοι μ. πολλὰς ἔχει” E.Fr.549; “τῆς γῆς ἡ ἀρίστη αἰεὶ τὰς μ. τῶν οἰκητόρων εἶχεν” Th.1.2: c. gen. objecti, change from a thing, “μεταβολὰ κακῶν” E.HF735; rarely, change to . . , “ἀπραγμοσύνης μ.” Th.6.18: more freq. with Preps., “μ. ἐκ φιλοτίμου εἰς φιλοχρήματον” Pl.R.553d; ἐκ προστάτου ἐπὶ τύραννον ib.565d; “ἐκ τοῦ εἶναι ἐπὶ τὸ μὴ εἶναι” Id.Prm.162c; “ἡ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον μ.” Diph.104; ἡ ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, Th.2.43; ἅμα τῇ μ. τῇ ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, Hdt.1.57; “ἡ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους μ.” Plb.9.26.2; “μ. μεταβάλλειν” Pl.R.404a, Arist.Po.1449a14: prov., “μ. πάντων γλυκύ” E.Or.234, cf. Arist.Rh.1371a28, Antiph.207.5.
2. eclipse, Hdt.1.74; but μ. ἄστρων καὶ ἡλίου reversal of motion, Pl.Plt.271c.
3. αἱ μ. τῶν πολιτειῶν changes of government, Arist.Pol.1292b18; πολιτῶν (v.l. -ειῶν) Th.6.17.
4. migration, [“τὰ ζῷα] ποιούμενα τὰς μ.” Arist. HA597a3: euphemism for death, Philostr.VA8.31, Corp.Herm.11.15,12.6.
5. as Military term, wheeling about, being a double “κλίσις, ἡ εἰς τοὔπισθεν μ.” Plb.18.30.4.
6. of literary style, variety, Caecil.Calact. ap. Quint.9.3.38; “μ. καὶ ποικίλον” D.H.Pomp.3: pl., Longin.5, 23.1.
7. in Music, modulation, e.g. of τόνος or γένος, Aristox.Harm.p.38 M., Cleonid.Harm.13, Bacch.Harm.50, Aristid. Quint.1.11, Ptol.Harm.2.6.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 9
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 4.9
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