ἀντίστροφος

A. turned so as to face one another: hence, correlative, co-ordinate, counterpart, Pl. Tht. 158c, etc.; τινί to a thing, Id. Grg. 464b, R. 605a; ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀ. τῇ διαλεκτικῇ Arist. Rh. 1354a1, Pol. 1293a33, etc.; ἰατρικὴ ἀ. δικαιοσύνῃ Aristid. 2.37 J.; also τινός the correlative or counterpart of . ., Pl. R. 530d, Grg. 465d, Isoc. 5.61, etc.; ἀ. . . ὥσπερ Arist. Pol. 1292b7. Adv. ‐φως in a manner corresponding, τινί Pl. R. 539d; ἡ γλῶττα ὥσπερ ‐φως ἔχουσα τῷ μυκτῆρι being the counterpart of . ., Arist. PA 661a27; συμβαίνει δ’ ἀντιστρόφως the result follows by a reversible proof, Id. Ph. 265b8.

2. in Logic, converse, λόγος Phld. Rh. 1.179S. Adv. ‐φως Id. Sign. 6: also in Math., converse, θεώρημα Papp. 970.20; τὰ ἀ. the converse proposition, Apollon.Perg. Con. 4.55. Adv. ‐φως conversely, ib.1.38, Max.Tyr. 34.4.

3. contrary, opposed, τινός D.Chr. 4.87; πρός τι Luc. Merc.Cond. 31. Adv. ‐φως in the opposite way, Phld. Lib. p.31O., Ps.-Luc. Philopatr. 18.

II. that can be retorted, D.H. Rh. 9.5 (as v.l., cf. ἀγχι‐).

III. ἐξ ἀντιστρόφου by an inverted construction (cf. ἀντιστροφή 11.2), Hdn. Fig. p.102S.

IV. in lyrics, antistrophic, Arist. Pr. 918b27, etc.: esp. Subst. ἀντίστροφος (sc. ᾠδή), ἡ, antistrophe, Id. Rh. 1409a26, D.H, Comp. 19, etc.; also of members in a rhet. period, ἐν στροφῇ καὶ ἀντιστρόφῳ Hermog. Id. 1.11.

V. f.l. for ἀμφίστροφος, wheeling both ways, A. Supp. 882codd.

VI. retorting a charge, Procop. Arc. 17.

VII. ἀντίστροφος,ἡ, = ἀπόστροφος Sch.Ar. Pl. 3.

2. ἀντίστροφοι, name for the two upper ribs, Poll. 2.182.

VIII. Adv. ‐φως crosswise, τὰς χεῖρας ἀλλήλαις ἐπιβάλλειν Gal. UP 5.14; inversely, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 10.5.4, cf. Diogenian. 3.30.