ἐπιστροφ-ή,ἡ,
turning about, τῆς τοῦ ἀτράκτου δίνης [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; twisting, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.13.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of strands, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 58.15; τῶν σχοινίων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 25 (_plural_); ἡ εἴσω ἐ. τῶν δακτύλων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.23. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2. bending of a bow, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.22. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3. curve, winding of a bay, [[[prev. work] 33 ] Refs]; of a river, [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 8.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II. intransitive, turning or wheeling about, δαΐων ἀνδρῶν ἐπιστροφαί, i.e. hostile men turning to bay, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1045 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; tossing, of a restless patient, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.83 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μυρίων ἐπιστροφαὶ κακῶν renewed assaults of ills unnumbered, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 537 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.17.5; especiallyin military evolutions, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.23.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; wheeling through a right angle, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 10.4, etc. (but, as a general term, αἱ ἐ. τῶν ἵππων [prev. work]7.2,compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 16.7) ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of ships, putting about, tacking, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, 91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς by a sudden wheel, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.76.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 27 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; but ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς παθεῖν to have a relapse, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 251. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]