ῥοπήν (rhopen)

ῥοπήν is an Ancient Greek form of ῥοπή, meaning “weight, balance; turn, influence”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 104 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 32.2: ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ πραγματευομένου μεγάλην ῥοπὴν ὁ πόλεμος τῷ νεωτερισμῷ προσέθηκε, τῶν Τυνδαριδῶν ἐπελθόντων· οἱ δὲ καὶ ὅλως φασὶν ὑπὸ τούτου πεισθέντας ἐλθε …

Plutarch, Camillus 28.4: … ν δὲ Κελτῶν περὶ τὸν σταθμὸν ἀγνωμονούντων κρύφα τὸ πρῶτον, εἶτα καὶ φανερῶς ἀφελκόντων καὶ διαστρεφόντων τὴν ῥοπήν, ἠγανάκτουν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι πρὸς αὐτούς.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 3.13·4: … τὸ περιττὸν ἅπαν ἀποθέσθαι σπεύδει, καθότι μάλιστα δύναται τάχιστά θʼ ἅμα καὶ κάλλιστα, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ περιττοῦ Ῥοπήν. ὅθεν ἡ γαστὴρ τὰ μὲν ἐπιπολάζοντα τῶν περιττωμάτων ἐμέτοις ἐκκαθαίρει, τὰ δʼ ὑφιστάμενα διαρροίαις. καὶ τό γ …

All forms of ῥοπή (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.