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τροπ-αῖος , α, ον,
A.of a turning or change (cf. τροπαία, ἠ̔.
II. of or for defeat (“τροπή” 11), τροπαῖά τ᾽ ἐχθρῶν καὶ πόλει σωτήρια (sc. σφάγια) E.Heracl.402; Ζεὺς Τ., as giver of victory, S.Ant. 143 (anap.), Tr.303, E.Heracl.867, IG22.1028.27; hence στήσαιεν Ζηνὶ τροπαῖον ἕδος ib.2.2717.
2. causing rout, appalling, Ἕκτορος ὄμμασι τροπαῖοι, i. e. terrible to the eyes of Hector, E.El.469 (lyr.), cf. 1174.—Cf. τρόπαιον.
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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    • Euripides, Electra, 469
    • Euripides, Electra, 1174
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 402
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 867
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 143
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