I.a turn, direction, course, way, Hdt.
II.a way, manner, fashion, τρόπῳ τοιῷδε in such wise, Hdt.; τίνι τρόπῳ; Lat. quomodo? how? Aesch., etc.; ποίῳ τρ.; id=Aesch.; ἑνί γε τῷ τρ. in one way or other, Ar.; παντὶ τρόπῳ by all means, Aesch.; οὐδενὶ τρ., μηδενὶ τρ. in no wise, by no means, on no account, Hdt., etc.:—so in pl., τρόποισι ποίοις; Soph.; ναυκλήρου τρόποις id=Soph.
2.absol. in acc., τίνα τρόπον; how? Ar.; τρ. τινά in a manner, Eur.; οὐδένα, μηδένα τρ. Xen.; πίτυος τρόπον after the manner of a pine, Hdt.; in pl., κεχώρισται τοὺς τρόπους in its ways, id=Hdt.; πάντας τρόπους in all ways, Plat.
3.with Preps., γυναικὸς ἐν τρόποις, ἐν τρ. Ἰξίονος Aesch.:— ἐς ὄρνιθος τρ. Luc.; κατὰ πάντα τρ. Ar., etc.; κατὰ πάντας τρόπους id=Ar.:— κατὰ τρόπον, absol., fitly, duly, Lat. rite, Isocr.
III.of persons, a way of life, habit, custom, Pind.; μῶν ἡλιαστά; Answ. μἀλλὰ θατέρου τρ. are you a Heliast?—No, but of the other sort, Ar.:—a man's character, temper, τρόπου ἡσυχίου of a quiet temper, Hdt.; οὐ τοὐμοῦ τρόπου not to my taste, Ar.; πρὸς τοῦ Κύρου τρόπου Xen.; so in pl. ways, habits, σκληρὸς τοὺς τρόπους Ar.; ὑπηρετεῖν τοῖς τρόποις τινός id=Ar.
V.in speaking or writing, manner, style, Isocr.:—but in Rhetoric, tropes, figures, Cic.
