Dictionary Polutropos

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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