ῥοπ-ή, ἡ,
(ῥέπω) turn of the scale, fall of the scale-pan, weight, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 307b33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μέχρι τοῦ μέσου τὴν ῥ. ἔχειν gravitate to.., [[[prev. work] 297a28 ] Refs]; downward momentum, τῷ μείζονι βάρει καὶ ῥ. πλείων παρέπεται [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 69.21 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ῥ. ποιεῖν make (counter-)weight, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.4.7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται ἐπὶ τᾶς αὐτᾶς ῥ. in equilibrium, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 97e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διαστρεφόντων τὴν ῥ. disturbing the balance, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 28. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, balancing, suspense, ἀ δ᾽ (i.e. ἀ πόλις) ἔχεται ῤόπας [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 25; ῥ. Δίκας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 61 (Lyric poetry); ἐν οὖν ῥ. τοιᾷδε κειμένῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 82 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ποντοναῦται.. λεπταῖς ἐπὶ ῥοπῆσιν ἐμπολὰς μακρὰς ἀεὶ παραρρίπτοντες staking distant ventures on nice balancings, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 555 (= “Philol.” 88.2)] Refs]; ῥ. βίου μοι the turning-point or sinking-point of life, i.e. death, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 1508; ῥ. 'στιν ἡμῶν ὁ βίος ὥσπερ ὁ ζυγός 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 465. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2.b turn of the scale, ποιεῖν ῥ. turn the scale, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295b38; τοῦ πολέμου 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.50; πολλάκις μικραὶ δυνάμεις μεγάλας τὰς ῥ. ἐποίησαν [prev. author] 4.139 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεγάλην ἔσεσθαι τὴν ῥ., εἰ.. [[ [prev. author] 14.33; εἰς ἑκάτερα τὰ μέρη ῥοπὰς λαμβάνοντα τὸν πόλεμον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.7, compare “Tragica Adespota” 102] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: hence, decision, outcome, βλέπω δύο ῥ.· ἢ γὰρ θανεῖν δεῖ μ᾽.. ἢ.. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1090 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ἐπὶ ῥ. μιᾶς ὄντες at the mercy of a single weighing in the scales, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.103. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]