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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

  • τοῖσ δὲ τὰ μέλη γράφουσιν τὸ μὲν τῶν στροφῶν τε καὶ ἀντιστρόφων οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε ἀλλάξαι μέλοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐάν τ’ ἐναρμονίουσ ἐάν τε χρωματικὰσ ἐάν τε διατόνουσ ὑποθῶνται μελῳδίασ, ἐν πάσαισ δεῖ ταῖσ στροφαῖσ καὶ ἀντιστρόφοισ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ἀγωγὰσ φυλάττειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 198)
  • ἀπολείπουσι γὰρ καὶ οὗτοι τοὺσ συμπεριπατοῦντασ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ αἱ περίοδοι αἱ μακραὶ οὖσαι λόγοσ γίνεται καὶ ἀναβολῇ ὅμοιον, ὥστε γίνεται ὃ ἔσκωψεν Δημόκριτοσ ὁ Χῖοσ εἰσ Μελανιππίδην ποιήσαντα ἀντὶ τῶν ἀντιστρόφων ἀναβολάσ οἷ τ’ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων,ἡ δὲ μακρὰ ἀναβολὴ τῷ ποιήσαντι κακίστη· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 6:4)

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

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