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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Grice on implicature as "metabole"

μεταβολ-ή , ,
2. exchange, barterἐπὶ μεταβολῇ with a view to trafficTh.6.31: metaph., “οὔ τιν᾽ ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν κακῶν ἀλλὰ μμειζόνων” Epicur.Fr.479.
3. turnover in business, PSI5.495.20 (iii B. C.).
4. payment by transfer in an account, PLond.3.1129b7 (ii A. D.).
II. (from Med.) transition, changeἀρχὰ κινήσιος καὶ μεταβολᾶς [Philol.21, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.160; “μετάστασις καὶ μ.” D.2.13; “ἐκ μεταβολῆς” Men.712Plb.1.61.7D.S.13.24; “πάλιν ἐκ μ.” Aeschin. 2.9: freq. in pl., changes, vicissitudes, “τῶν ὡρέων” Hdt.2.77, cf. Arist.HA596b23; “τῆς τύχης” E.Fr.554; “αἱ μκάτω τε καὶ ἄνω γιγνόμεναι” Pl.Phlb.43b, cf. Antipho 2.4.9; “αἱ πλεῖσται μμάλιστα τέρπουσιν” Hp.Vict.1.18; “ἦμαρ <ἕντοι μπολλὰς ἔχει” E.Fr.549; “τῆς γῆς  ἀρίστη αἰεὶ τὰς μτῶν οἰκητόρων εἶχεν” Th.1.2: c. gen. objecti, change from a thing, “μεταβολὰ κακῶν” E.HF735; rarely, change to . . , “ἀπραγμοσύνης μ.” Th.6.18: more freq. with Preps., “μἐκ φιλοτίμου εἰς φιλοχρήματον” Pl.R.553dἐκ προστάτου ἐπὶ τύραννον ib.565d; “ἐκ τοῦ εἶναι ἐπὶ τὸ μὴ εἶναι” Id.Prm.162c; “ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον μ.” Diph.104 ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, Th.2.43ἅμα τῇ μτῇ ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, Hdt.1.57; “ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους μ.” Plb.9.26.2; “μμεταβάλλειν” Pl.R.404aArist.Po.1449a14: prov., “μπάντων γλυκύ” E.Or.234, cf. Arist.Rh.1371a28Antiph.207.5.
2. eclipseHdt.1.74; but μἄστρων καὶ ἡλίου reversal of motion, Pl.Plt.271c.
3. αἱ μτῶν πολιτειῶν changes of government, Arist.Pol.1292b18πολιτῶν (v.l. -ειῶνTh.6.17.
4. migration, [“τὰ ζῷα] ποιούμενα τὰς μ.” Arist. HA597a3: euphemism for deathPhilostr.VA8.31Corp.Herm.11.15,12.6.
5. as Military term, wheeling about, being a double “κλίσις εἰς τοὔπισθεν μ.” Plb.18.30.4.
6. of literary style, variety, Caecil.Calact. ap. Quint.9.3.38; “μκαὶ ποικίλον” D.H.Pomp.3: pl., Longin.523.1.
7. in Music, modulation, e.g. of τόνος or γένοςAristox.Harm.p.38 M., Cleonid.Harm.13Bacch.Harm.50Aristid. Quint.1.11Ptol.Harm.2.6.

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