- μεταβολή
- revolt
- 1. a change, changing , [Refs 5th c.BC]
2. exchange, barter, traffic , [Refs 5th c.BC]
3. (from Mid.) a transition, change , and in pl. changes, vicissitudes , [Refs 5th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC]:—;c. gen. change from a thing, μ. κακῶν [Refs 5th c.BC]; rarely change to . . , μ. ἀπραγμοσύνης [Refs 5th c.BC]; but this is generally expressed by a prep., ἅμα τῇ μ. ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, [Refs 5th c.BC]; ἡ ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, [Refs 5th c.BC]
4. μ. τῆς ἡμέρης an eclipse , [Refs 5th c.BC]
5. μ. πολιτείας change of government, a revolution , [Refs 5th c.BC]
6. as military term, a wheeling about , [Refs 2nd c.BC]; metaph. of a speaker, [Refs 4th c.BC] (ML)