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ἐπι-στρέφω,
perfect ἐπέστροφα [[ 4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus (see. below 1.2a)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—turn about, turn round, νῶτον Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.141; δεῦρ᾽ ἐ. κάρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 942, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.12; στροφεῖς 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 23.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. τὰς ναῦς tack [[compare (ἐπιστροφή 11.1), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, put an enemy to flight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; wheel about, τοὺς ἱππεῖς [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 19 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; wheel through a right angle, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 10.5 (_active_ and _passive_), etc.; _intransitive_, [prev. work]12.11, etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__b. intransitive, turn about, turn round, ἕλκε δ᾽ ἐπιστρέψας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.370 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; here only in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], and perhaps transitive, whirl, but see [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.103, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 566; ἀλλὰ πᾶς ἐπίστρεφε δεῦρο 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 422 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of ships, put about, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.47.8, 50.5 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of a wild boar, turn upon the hunter, ἐπί τινα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; return, ἀπὸ τῆς στρατείας Epist. Philipp. in [[ “IG” 9(2).517.37 (from Larissa), cf. NT.Matt.12.44, etc. ] NT]; of an illness, recur, falsa lectio for{ὑπο-}, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 124 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: as Hebraism, with infinitive, as periphrasis of πάλιν, ἐπιστρέψει.. εὐφρανθῆναι [[ LXX.Deu.30.9, cf. LXX.2Esd.9.14, +others] LXX]; so with καί and finite Verb, ἐπέστρεψεν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν[[LXX.2Ch.33.3, cf. LXX.Mal.1.4, +others ] LXX]
__2. turn towards, νόημα [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1083; ἦθος κατά τινα [prev. author] 213 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. τινά turn his attention towards one, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 11 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τινὰ πρός τι, εἰς ἑαυτόν, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.21c,69f, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.3.8 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; οἱ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐπεστροφότες ἐπὶ σοφίαν [[ 4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 34.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐ. πίστιν press a pledge upon one, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1182 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. τὴν φάλαγγα bring it into action, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 42: hence, ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2.b. intransitive, turn (oneself) towards, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 8.12, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. εἰς or πρὸς ἑαυτόν, of νοῦς, reflect, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.3.1, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 15 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; τὸ ἐπιστρέφον βαθρικόν the steps leading to the sarcophagus, Judeich Altertümervon Hierapolis [[ 152. ] Refs]
__3. turn or convert from an error, correct, cause to repent, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 16; πλημμελοῦντας [prev. author] “Cat.Mi.” 14 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; warn, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.7.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; coerce, [[ 4th-6th c.AD: Codex Justinianus 4.20.15.1. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__3.b. passive, to be converted, return, ἐπὶ Κύριον [[ LXX.Deu.30.2 ] LXX]; intransitive, repent,[[LXX.Judg.5.19, +others, NT.Matt.13.15, NT.Luke.22.32, etc. ] LXX+NT]
__3.c. Philos., cause to return to the source of Being, τινὰς εἰς τὰ ἐναντία καὶ τὰ πρῶτα [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.1; τι πρὸς τἀγαθόν 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 144 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.2.4, 5.2.1 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; τὸ προϊὸν ἀπό τινος -στρέφεται πρὸς ἐκεῖνο ἀφ᾽ οὗ πρόεισιν [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 31; πρὸς τὸ ἕν 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 27 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—also intransitive in active, ἐ. εἰς ἑαυτόν [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.3.6 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; τὸ γεννηθὲν φύσει πρὸς τὸ γεννῆσαν ἐ. [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes” 13 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οὐδὲν τῶν σωμάτων πρὸς ἑαυτὸ πέφυκεν ἐ. [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 15. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__4. curve, twist, ὀδύνη σε περὶ τὰ σπλάγχν᾽ ἔοικ᾽ ἐπιστρέφειν variant in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1131; ἐ. ἐπισκύνιον “Anthologia Graeca” 11.376.8 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be distorted, ἢν τράχηλος ἐπιστραφῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of hair, curl, οἷς ἐπέστραπται τὸ τρίχιον [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 963b10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐπεστραμμένος, of a tree, crooked, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.8.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of fir-needles, bent, [[[prev. work] 3.9.6. ] Refs]
__II. middle and passive, especially in aorist 2 passive ἐπεστράφην [ᾰ], also ἐπεστρέφθην [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 4.179 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: Doric dialect 3rd.pers. singular future passive -στραφησεῖται[[ “GDI” 3089.27 (from Callatis)] Refs]:—turn oneself round, turn about, ἤϊε ἐπιστρεφόμενος constantly turning, as if to look behind one, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.156: and with _accusative_, πολλὰ θάλαμον ἐξιοῦσ᾽ ἐπεστράφη] Refs 5th c.BC+] turned to gaze on it, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 187 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so of a lion retreating, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 629b15 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δι᾽ οὗ πάσας ἐπιστρέφεσθαι τὰς περιφοράς by which all the revolving spheres are turned, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 616c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δόξα τῇδ᾽ ἐπεστράφη thus turned about, changed, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1111. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2. go back-and forwards, πάντῃ [[ “Hymni Homerici” 27.10 ] Refs]; κατ᾽ ἄλσος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 508: with _accusative_, γαῖαν ἐπιστρέφεται] Refs 4th c.BC+] wanders over the earth, with collateral sense of observing, studying it, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 753, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 648; so ἐ. ὀρέων κορυφάς 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 2.4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also with accusative loci, turn to a place, πόθεν γῆς τῆσδ᾽ ἐπεστράφης πέδο; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 83, compare 89, 768, “Ion” 352 (also εἰς χώρας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 4.13): c._accusative_ _cognate_, [διεξόδους] ἐπιστρέφεσθαι] Refs 5th c.BC+] walk in.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the sun, revolve, [[ 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 584. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3. turn the mind towards, pay attention to, regard [[compare (ἐπιστροφή 11.3), τινός 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 96, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 599, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.15 O., “Anthologia Graeca” 5.47 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τῶν ἰδίων οὐδὲν ἐ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 440; εἴς τι 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in librum de sensu commentarium - pars” 57.18 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: absolutely, return to oneself, pay attention, ἐπιστραφείς [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.88; οὐκ ἦλθες,.. οὐδ᾽ ἐπεστράφης 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 400 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐπεστράφη, ={οὐκ ἐφρόντισε} (just above), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.136, compare 10.9, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.319 (1st c.AD: Automedon Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.3.b. conduct oneself, behave, ἀξίως τᾶς τιμᾶς [[ “SIG” 539 A 22 (Decrees Amphict., 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.4. c.accusative, θεοῦ νιν κέλευσμ᾽ ἐπεστράφη turned against her, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 101 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5. perfect participle passive ἐπεστραμμένος, ={ἐπιστρεφής}, earnest, vehement, λέγειν ἐπεστραμμένα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.62; ἀφέλεια -στραμμένη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.7.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
