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καμπή , ἡ, (κάμπτω)
A.winding, of a river, Hdt.1.185; Εὐβοΐδα κ., of the Euripus, A.Fr.30; “τὰς κ. τῶν Χωρίων” Aen.Tact.15.6; “τόπους καμπὰς ἔχοντας” Ael.Tact.35.4.
2. flexion, bending, “τὰ ἄποδα δυσὶ Χρώμενα προέρχεται καμπαῖς” Arist.IA707b9, cf. HA490a31.
3. curved part, HeroSpir.2.16, Sor.2.62.
II. turning-post in a racecourse, “περὶ ταῖσι καμπαῖς ἡνίοχοι πεπτωκότες” Ar.Pax905; “καμπαῖσι δρόμων” E.IA224(lyr.); εὐλαβηθῆναι περὶ τὴν κ. Pl.Ion537a: metaph., μῦθον ἐς καμπὴν ἄγε bring a speech to its goal (cf. “καμπτήρ” 11), E.El. 659; “καμπὴν ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.Phd.72b.
III. in Music, turn, sudden change, “εἴ τις κάμψειέν τινα καμπήν” Ar.Nu.969; ἐξαρμονίους κ. Pherecr. 145.9, cf. ib. 28; “καμπαὶ ᾀσμάτων” Philostr.VS2.28.
2. Rhet., rounding off of a period, Cic.Att.1.14.4(pl.), Demetr.Eloc.10, 17.
IV. bend or flexure of a limb, τῶν ὤμων, τῶν ἰσχίων, τῶν δακτύλων, etc., Arist.HA498a25sqq., cf. Pl.Ti.74e; of the skull, οὐκ ἔχουσα καμπάς ib.75c; οὐλὴ καμπῆ （῀ -ῇ）“ Χιρὸς δεξιᾶς” Sammelb.7031.5 (i A.D.).
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.14.4
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