Included with: πολύ-τροπος, ον,
(τρέπω) much-turned, i.e. much-travelled, much-wandering, epithet of Odysseus, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.1, 10.330. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II turning many ways: metaphorically, shifty, versatile, wily, of Hermes, [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 13, 439; τοῖς ἀσθενέσι καὶ π. θηρίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 291b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and in this sense Plato took the word as applied to Odysseus, [[ “Hp.Mi.” 364e (_superlative_), +others] Refs]; τὸ π. τῆς γνώμης their versatility of mind, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ π., of Alcibiades, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 24. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 fickle, ὅμιλος [[ 1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 95. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.3 of diseases, changeful, complicated, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 22; also πόλεμος τοῖς πάθεσι ποικίλος καὶ ταῖς τύχαις πολυτροπώτατος [prev. author] “Mar.” 33; στρατεία 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.223D. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III various, manifold, ξυμφοραί [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπιθυμίαι, ἐθισμοὶ τῶν λέξεων, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 471, “Nat.” 28.1 (p.7V.); κακά 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.567; ἔθνη 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marcellus” 12; τύχαι [prev. author] Alcaeus2; ὄργια “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 36.3; τὸ π. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. adverb -πως in many manners, [[ 4th c.BC: Meno Medicus “Iatrika” 20.31, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.512, NT.Heb.1.1, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 12 ] NT+4th c.BC+]: comparative, -ωτέρως καὶ ποικιλωτέρως [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 5 G. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]