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ὑπαλλ-α^γή , ἡ,
A.interchange, exchange, Ph.1.13; “γένους” A.D.Synt. 209.6: pl., “γάμους ἑλομένη τῶν κακῶν ὑπαλλαγάς” E.Hel.294; v.l. for παρ-, Thphr.CP2.19.6.
2. change of régime, Gal.6.410; of colour, “ἡ τῆς χροιᾶς ὑ.” Id.15.535; of wine with age, ib.629.
3. pledging as security, mortgage, “ἐδανείσατο ἐπὶ ὑπαλλαγῇ οἰκίας” BGU 362 ix 17 (iii A.D.), cf. PLips.10 ii 2 (iii A.D.).
II. hypallage, a figure of speech, D.H.Comp.3 (pl.); expld. as Rhet. equivalent of Gramm. μετωνυμία by Cic.Orat.27.93, Quint.Inst.8.6.23; = ἐπιτίμησις 11.2, Alex.Fig.2.28.
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, Helen, 294
    • Cicero, Orator, 27.93
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 3
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