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μετα-βα^τικός , ή, όν,
A.able to pass from one place to another, “τὸ μ. ἀφ᾽ ἑτέρου εἰς ἕτερον” Placit.4.8.6; μ. κίνησις motion involving change of place, ib.4.6.1, Ph. 1.397, S.E.M.9.195; μ. ὄργανα organs of motion, Gal.4.546. Adv. -“κῶς, κινεῖν” Placit.3.13.3, cf. Ph.1.176, Alex.Aphr.in Top.43.32.
2. discursive, “φαντασία μ. καὶ συνθετική” S.E.M.8.276, cf. Procl.in Prm. p.628 S., in Ti.1.244 D. Adv. -κῶς Id. in Prm.l.c., in Ti.1.246 D.; by the process of analogical or discursive reasoning, “εἰ καὶ τὸ νοητὸν μ. ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ νοοῦμεν” S.E.M.3.25; “νοῦν . . ἅμα πάντα γιγνώσκοντα καὶ οὐ μ.” Dam.Pr.100; opp. ἀμεταβάτως, Procl.Inst.211.
II. exchanging, bartering: τὸ -κόν the petty dealers, dub. in Hippodam. ap. Stob.4.1.94 (leg. -βλα_τικόν).
III. Gramm., not reflexive, of pronouns, A.D.Pron.24.15. Adv. -κῶς ib.44.14.
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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