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ἀντιστροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιστροφή

Structure: ἀντιστροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from a)ntistre/fw

Sense

  1. a turning about: the antistrophe or returning of the chorus

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καί σοι τὰ τῆσ διαίτησ πρὸσ τὸν πάλαι βίον ἀντίστροφα, καὶ ἡ ἀγρυπνία δὲ καὶ ὁ ἱδρὼσ καὶ ὁ κάματοσ ἠρέμα ἤδη ὑπορύττουσιν, ἢ φθόην ἢ περιπνευμονίαν ἢ κώλου ἄλγημα ἢ τὴν καλὴν ποδάγραν ἀναπλάττοντεσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 31:3)
  • πάντα γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀντίστροφα τὰ αὐτὰ παρακολουθεῖ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 101:2)
  • εἰσ σκέψιν αὐτῆσ δικαιοσύνησ τε καὶ ἀδικίασ, τί τε ἑκάτερον αὐτοῖν καὶ τί τῶν πάντων ἢ ἀλλήλων διαφέρετον, ἢ ἐκ τοῦ "εἰ βασιλεὺσ εὐδαίμων," "κεκτημένοσ τ’ αὖ χρυσίον," βασιλείασ πέρι καὶ ἀνθρωπίνησ ὅλωσ εὐδαιμονίασ καὶ ἀθλιότητοσ ἐπὶ σκέψιν, ποίω τέ τινε ἐστὸν καὶ τίνα τρόπον ἀνθρώπου φύσει προσήκει τὸ μὲν κτήσασθαι αὐτοῖν, τὸ δὲ ἀποφυγεῖν ‐ περὶ τούτων ἁπάντων ὅταν αὖ δέῃ λόγον διδόναι τὸν σμικρὸν ἐκεῖνον τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ δριμὺν καὶ δικανικόν, πάλιν αὖ τὰ ἀντίστροφα ἀποδίδωσιν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 203:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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