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μετα-ρρέω , fut.
A.“μεταρρυ^ήσομαι” Gal.7.573:—flow differently: change to and fro, ebb and flow, “ὥσπερ Εὔριπος” Arist.EN1167b7, cf. Aret.SD2.1.
2. change from one side to the other, as from right to left, Pl.Tht.193d: metaph., change sides, transfer one's allegiance or affections, “μ. πᾶν τὸ ἔθνος εἰς αὐτόν” J.BJ1.4.5; “τὰ πράγματα μ. εἰς Μιθριδάτην” Posidon.36 J.:—Pass., “μεταρρυῆναι εἰς παῖδα” Philostr.VA 3.38, cf. VS 2.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 1.4.5
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 193d
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.1
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.38
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.3
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