ἐπιστροφῆς (epistrophes)

ἐπιστροφῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιστροφή, meaning “turning back, attention”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.66: … ίρετʼ· ἐγὼ δʼ ὑμῖν θεὸς ἄμβροτος, οὐκέτι θνητὸς πωλεῦμαι, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. καθʼ ὃν δὲ χρόνον ἐπεδήμει Ὀλυμπίασιν, ἐπιστροφῆς ἠξιοῦτο πλείονος, ὥστε μηδενὸς ἑτέρου μνείαν γίνεσθαι ἐν ταῖς ὁμιλίαις τοσαύτην ὅσην Ἐμπεδοκλέους.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.1·2: … ῖρα κατὰ λαγόνα εἰσωθεῖν· τὸ γὰρ ὑγρὸν ἐπὶ τὰ ἄλλα μέρεα μεταρρέει· ἀτὰρ καὶ ἐν τῇσι τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τῇδε ἢ τῇδε ἐπιστροφῇς ι, ἐς τὰς μετακλίσιας τὸ ὑγρὸν, ὄγκον τε καὶ κλύδωνα ποιέει, ἐσακούειν τε καὶ τοῦ κλύδωνος· ἀλλὰ κἤνπη τὸν δά …

All forms of ἐπιστροφή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.