ἀπο-στροφή, ἡ,
turning back, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.6; ἀ. νώτων 1st c.BC(?): Maximus Astrologus Tyr. 9.8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. λαμβάνειν make a bend, of a stream, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 27, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hipp.” 2. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 twisting, ὄρχεων ἀποστροφαί Trag.[[(1st c.BC(?): Satyrus Epigrammaticus) “Oxy.” 1083.10. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II turning away from, escape, refuge, with genitive, τύχης, κακῶν, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 769, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 444; ζημίας [prev. author] “Med.” 1223. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 resort, recourse, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.109, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.76; ἥκει βίου τελευτὴ κοὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1473, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 603; οὐκ ἔχων ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Dem.fragment” 5; in _plural_, Antip.Stoic. 3.255: with _genitive_ objecti, οὔ σφί ἐστι ὕδατος οὐδεμία ἄλλη ἀ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] no other means for getting water, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.13; so σωτηρίας ἀ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.75; βίου 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 6.1] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ δήμου ποιεῖσθαι secure a refuge with.., [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III Rhet., apostrophe, when one turns away from all others to one, and addresses him specially, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.11O., 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 9.2.38, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 16.2, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 4.4, “[prev. author]” 1.10(_plural_), 5th-6th c.AD: Phoebammon Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” 1.1, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor “De Figuris” 1.20. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]