μετάβολ-ος · metabol-os — LSJ
changeable, Plu. Def.orac. 2.428b, Ptol. Tetr. 96.
as Subst., = μεταβολεύς I, huckster, retail dealer, opp. ἔμπορος, GDI iv p.876 (Chios, prob. from Erythrae, iv B. C.), cf. PRev.Laws 48.3 (iii B. C.), LXX Is. 23.2, 3, PTeb. 116.20 (ii B. C.), Sch. Ar. Pax 446; τοὶ μ. τοὶ ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν SIG 1000.21 (Cos, i B. C.): as Adj., ἱματιοπῶλαι μ. retail clothes-dealers, OGI 629.83 (Palmyra, ii A. D.); μ. ἁλιεῖς Ostr. 1449 (ii A. D.).