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ὑποστροφ-άς , άδος, ἡ,
A.a screw working a crane, Ath.Mech.37.1. -ή, ἡ, turning about, wheeling round, of cavalry, Hdt.9.22: generally, return march, D.C.71.2.
2. in the phrase ἐξ ὑποστροφῆς, of the chariot, turning round the meta at the far end of the δίαυλος, i. e. turning sharply round, S.El.725: so in military sense, wheeling right about, Plb.2.25.3,3.14.5, D.H.2.41, etc.
b. on the contrary, Epist. Philipp. ap. D.18.166.
3. return, J.AJ2.14.3.
II. recurrence, relapse, “ὀδυνημάτων” Hp.Art.50, cf. Prog.22, Epid.1.3, Gal.6.815.
2. Rhet., τὸ καθ᾽ ὑποστροφὴν σχῆμα recurrence to a subject, after a parenthesis, Hermog.Id.2.1, cf. Aristid.Rh.2p.514S.
3. Gramm., throwing back of the accent, A.D.Synt.134.18.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 166
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    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 1.3
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