μεταπίπτω,
used as passive of μεταβάλλω, fall differently, undergo a change,
__a in form, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 88, 5th c.BC: Melissus Philosophus 8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 440a, etc.; πολλαχῶς μ. 5th c.BC: Diogenes Apolloniates Philosophus 2; μ. τὸ εἶδος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.61; μ. εἰς ἄλλο εἶδος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 440b; ἐκ γυναικὸς ἐς ὄρνεον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 2: Grammars, τὸ ᾱ μ. εἰς τὸ ο ¯ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 188.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fall into disrepair, [[ “PSI” 4.444.3 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__b in mind, change one's opinion suddenly, τὸν ὁμόθεν πεφυκότα στέργων μετέπεσον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 502; ἐξ ἐχθίστου μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 627: _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.50, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.49.7, “PRyl.” 118.4 (1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also μ. εἰς τἀναντία τῆς γνώμης [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.7.7. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__2 of place, migrate, be transferred, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 360b18, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of votes, εἰ τριάκοντα μόναι μετέπεσον τῶν ψήφων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 36a, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.252 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ὀστράκου μεταπεσόντος on the fall of the sherd with the other side uppermost, proverbial, of a sudden change (borrowed from the game ὀστρακίνδα), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241b, cf. Scholia ] Refs 5th c.BC+]