μεταβολ-ή (metabole)

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De aere aquis et locis 15 · 20.25/10k
Categories 14 · 13.94/10k
On the Sacred Disease 6 · 13.07/10k
Meditations 20 · 6.88/10k
De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 1 · 4.96/10k
Second Olynthiac 1 · 4.89/10k
Panegyricus 5 · 4.64/10k
To Philip 4 · 4.57/10k
Areopagiticus 2 · 4.37/10k
Metaphysics 31 · 3.95/10k
Politics 24 · 3.67/10k

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What it meant

μεταβολ-ή · metabol-ē — LSJ

change, changing

change, changing, μεταβολαὶ ἱστίων Pi. P. 4.292; ἱματίων μεταβολαί X. Lac. 2.1.

2 exchange, barter, traffic

exchange, barter, ἐπὶ μεταβολῇ with a view to traffic, Th. 6.31: metaph., οὔ τινʼ ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν κακῶν ἀλλὰ μ. μειζόνων Epicur. Fr. 479.

3 turnover

turnover in business, PSI 5.495.20 (iii B. C.).

4 payment by transfer in an account

payment by transfer in an account, PLond. 3.1129b7 (ii A. D.).

II transition, change, changes, vicissitudes, change from, change to, change to, going over

(from Med.) transition, change, ἀρχὰ κινήσιος καὶ μεταβολᾶς [Philol.] 21, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.160; μετάστασις καὶ μ. D. 2.13; ἐκ μεταβολῆς Men. 712, Plb. 1.61.7, D.S. 13.24; πάλιν ἐκ μ. Aeschin. 2.9: freq. in pl., changes, vicissitudes, τῶν ὡρέων Hdt. 2.77, cf. Arist. HA 596b23; τῆς τύχης E. Fr. 554; αἱ μ. κάτω τε καὶ ἄνω γιγνόμεναι Pl. Phlb. 43b, cf. Antipho 2.4.9; αἱ πλεῖσται μ. μάλιστα τέρπουσιν Hp. Vict. 1.18; ἦμαρ <ἕν> τοι μ. πολλὰς ἔχει E. Fr. 549; τῆς γῆς ἡ ἀρίστη αἰεὶ τὰς μ. τῶν οἰκητό

2 eclipse, reversal

eclipse, Hdt. 1.74; but μ. ἄστρων καὶ ἡλίου reversal of motion, Pl. Plt. 271c.

3 changes

αἱ μ. τῶν πολιτειῶν changes of government, Arist. Pol. 1292b18; πολιτῶν (v.l. -ειῶν) Th. 6.17.

4 migration, death

migration, [τὰ ζῷα] ποιούμενα τὰς μ. Arist. HA 597a3: euphemism for death, Philostr. VA 8.31, Corp.Herm. 11.15,12.6.

5 wheeling about

as Military term, wheeling about, being a double κλίσις, ἡ εἰς τοὔπισθεν μ. Plb. 18.30.4.

6 variety

of literary style, variety, Caecil.Calact. ap. Quint. 9.3.38; μ. καὶ ποικίλον D.H. Pomp. 3: pl., Longin. 5, 23.1.

7 modulation

in Music, modulation, e.g. of τόνος or γένος, Aristox. Harm. p.38 M., Cleonid. Harm. 13, Bacch. Harm. 50, Aristid. Quint. 1.11, Ptol. Harm. 2.6.

In the wild

μεταβολή · metabolē Aristotle, Ars Poetica 11
μεταβολὴ · metabolē Aristotle, Ars Poetica 11
μεταβολὰς · metabolas Aristotle, Ars Poetica 4
μεταβολήν · metabolēn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..13 (DIORISIS sentence 165)
μεταβολὰς · metabolas Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..16 (DIORISIS sentence 194)
μεταβολῶν · metabolōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..41 (DIORISIS sentence 472)

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