μετάβασις

metabasis

moving over, shifting

Appears 5 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 4
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Book III 1
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676c8
Book V 2
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736d3
737a1
Book X 1
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894a3
Republic 1
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Book VIII 1
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547c5

Dictionary (LSJ)

μετάβασις, εως, ἡ, A. moving over, shifting, e.g. of the body in walking, from one leg to the other, Hp. Mochl. 20; change of position, Epicur. Ep. 1p.16U.: pl., ib.p.17 U. 2. passing over, ἐς τὸ ἕτερον πλοῖον v.l. in Antipho 5.22; migration, change of residence, εἰς Κόρινθον ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν Plu. 2.78d; μ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐπί . . BGU 137.6 (ii A. D.). II. change, τῶν πολιτειῶν γένεσις καὶ μ. Pl. Lg. 676c; δοκεῖ ἡ μ. ἐντεῦθεν γίγνεσθαι Id. R. 547c; τῶν νομίμων Arist. Pol. 1303a22 (pl.); ἡ μ. ἐκ [τῶν φυτῶν] εἰς τὰ ζῷα συνεχής ἐστιν Id. HA 588b11; μ. ἀπὸ ποιότητος εἰς ποιότητα Sor. 2.15; αἱ τῆς τραγῳδίας μ. Arist. Po. 1449a37; but ἡ μ. the reversal of fortune in a drama, ib.1455b28. III. transition from one subject to another, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 55; as a figure in Rhet., Quint. 9.3.25. 2. inference or procedure by analogy, Phld. Rh. 1.105 S., Sign. 19, S.E. M. 8.194; ἡ κατὰ τὸ ὅμοιον μ. Phld. Sign. 38, al.; also in Medicine, ἡ τοῦ ὁμοίου μ. Gal. 1.118.

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