Liddell–Scott–Jones: ἀντιστροφ-ή

ἀντιστροφ-ή,ἡ,

A. a turning about:

I. in choruses and dances,strophic correspondence,

D.H. Comp. 25 ; in later writers, = ἀντίστροφος, ἡ (q.v.), Sch. Ar. Nu. 595 ,al.

II. Rhet.,repetition of closing words in successive members,

Phld. Rh. 1.195

S. , Hermog. Id. 1.12 , cf, 2.1 , Eust. 945.60 ; ἀ. τὸ ἐναντίον τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς

Alex. Fig. 2.4

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2. inversion,of construction, e.g.ἠχῶν ἔπεσαfor πεσὼν ἤχησα

Phoeb. Fig. 1.5

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3. Gramm.,inversion of letters(e.g.ἀκήν, ἦκα), EM 424.8 .

III. inversion, κατὰ τὴν ἀ. τῆς ἀναλογίαςininverse ratio,

Arist. Ph. 266b18 :—in Logic,conversion of termsof a proposition, Id. APr. 25a40 ;ἀ. δέχεσθαιto beconvertible,ib. 50b32 .