μεταβολή μεταβολή, ἡ, μεταβάλλω a change, changing, Pind. exchange, barter, traffic, Thuc. (from Mid.) a transition, change, and in pl. changes, vicissitudes, Hdt., Eur.:—c. gen. change from a thing, μ. κακῶν Eur.; rarely change to . . , μ. ἀπραγμοσύνης Thuc.; but this is generally expressed by a prep., ἅμα τῇ μ. ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, Hdt.; ἡ ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, Thuc. μ. τῆς ἡμέρης an eclipse, Hdt. μ. πολιτείας change of government, a revolution, Thuc. as military term, a wheeling about, Polyb.; metaph. of a speaker, Aeschin.