P o l u t r o p o s
I. - much-turned, i.e. much-travelled, much-wandering, epithet. of Ulysses,
Hom.
Od. 1.1, au=Hom.
Od. 10.330.
II. 1. - turning many ways: metaph., shifty, versatile, wily, of Hermes,
HH
4.13,au=h.Merc.439; tois asthenesi kai polutropos thêrioisPlat.
Stat. 291b; and in this sense Plato took the word as applied to Ulysses,
ti=Plat.
Hipp. Min. 364e (Sup.), al.; to polutropos tês gnômês
their versatility of mind, Thuc.
3.83; to polutropos, of Alcibiades, Plut.
Alc. 24.
II. 2. - fickle, homilos Ps.-Phoc.95.
II. 3. - of diseases, changeful, complicated, Plu.Num.22; also polemos
tois pathesi poikilos kai tais tuchais polutropôtatos IDEM=Plu.Mar.33;
strateia
Eun.Hist.p.223D.
III. - various, manifold, xumphorai Thuc.
2.44; epithumiai, ethismoi tôn lexeôn, Epicur.Fr.471,
ti=Epicur. Nat.28.1 (p.7V.); kaka Ph.2.567; ethnê Plu.Marc.12;
tuchai
IDEM=Plut.
Alc. 2; orgia Lyr.Alex.Adesp.36.3; to polutropos Phld.Sign.26.
Adv. -pôs in many manners,Meno Iatr.20.31, Ph.2.512, Ep.Hebr.1.1,
Iamb.Comm.Math.12: Comp., -ôterôs kai poikilôterôs
Epicur.Nat.5 G.
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: polutropos
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