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ἀντίστροφος

ἀντίστροφος, turned so as to face one another: correlative, coordinate, counterpart

ἀντίστροφ-ος, ον,
  • turned so as to face one another: hence, correlative, co-ordinate, counterpart, Pl. Tht. 158c, etc.; τινί to a thing, Id. Grg. 464b, R. 605a; ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀ. τῇ διαλεκτικῇ Arist. Rh. 1354a1, Pol. 1293a33, etc.; ἰατρικὴ ἀ. δικαιοσύνῃ Aristid. 2.37 J.; also τινός the correlative or counterpart of . ., Pl. R. 530d, Grg. 465d, Isoc. 5.61, etc.; ἀ. . . ὥσπερ Arist. Pol. 1292b7. Adv. -φως in a manner corresponding, τινί Pl. R. 539d; ἡ γλῶττα ὥσπερ -φως ἔχουσα τῷ μυκτῆρι being the counterpart of . ., Arist. PA 661a27; συμβαίνει δʼ ἀντιστρόφως the result follows by a reversible proof, Id. Ph. 265b8.
      • 2 in Logic, converse, λόγος Phld. Rh. 1.179 S. Adv. -φως Id. Sign. 6: also in Math., converse, θεώρημα Papp. 970.20; τὰ ἀ. the converse proposition, Apollon.Perg. Con. 4.55. Adv. -φως conversely, ib. 1.38, Max.Tyr. 34.4.
      • 3 contrary, opposed, τινός D.Chr. 4.87; πρός τι Luc. Merc.Cond. 31. Adv. -φως in the opposite way, Phld. Lib. p.31 O., Ps.-Luc. Philopatr. 18.
    • II that can be retorted, D.H. Rh. 9.5 (as v.l., cf. ἀγχι-).
    • III ἐξ ἀντιστρόφου by an inverted construction (cf. ἀντιστροφή II.2), Hdn. Fig. p.102 S.
    • IV in lyrics, antistrophic, Arist. Pr. 918b27, etc.: esp. Subst. ἀντίστροφος (sc. ᾠδή), ἡ, antistrophe, Id. Rh. 1409a26, D.H Comp. 19, etc.; also of members in a rhet. period, ἐν στροφῇ καὶ ἀντιστρόφῳ Hermog. Id. 1.11.
    • V f.l. for ἀμφίστροφος, wheeling both ways, A. Supp. 882 codd.
    • VI retorting a charge, Procop. Arc. 17.
    • VII ἀντίστροφος, ἡ, = ἀπόστροφος Sch. Ar. Pl. 3.
      • 2 ἀντίστροφοι, name for the two upper ribs, Poll. 2.182.
    • VIII Adv. -φως crosswise, τὰς χεῖρας ἀλλήλαις ἐπιβάλλειν Gal. UP 5.14; inversely, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 10.5.4, cf. Diogenian. 3.30.

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