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μετα-βᾰτικός

metabatikos

able to pass from one place to another

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What it meant

μετα-βᾰτικός · meta-batikos — LSJ

able to pass from one place to another, involving change of place, of motion

able to pass from one place to another, τὸ μ. ἀφʼ 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, by the process of analogical, discursive reasoning

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, the petty dealers

exchanging, bartering: τὸ -κόν the petty dealers, dub. in Hippodam. ap. Stob. 4.1.94 (leg. -βλᾱτικόν).

III not reflexive

Gramm., not reflexive, of pronouns, A.D. Pron. 24.15. Adv. -κῶς ib. 44.14.

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