1. a change, changing , (Pindar)

2. exchange, barter, traffic , (Thucydides)

3. (from Mid.) a transition, change , and in plural changes, vicissitudes , (Herdotus Historicus):—;with genitive change from a thing, μ. κακῶν (Euripides); rarely change to . μ. ἀπραγμοσύνης (Thucydides); but this is generally expressed by a preposition, ἅμα τῇ μ. ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, (Herdotus Historicus); ἡ ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, (Thucydides)

4. μ. τῆς ἡμέρης an eclipse , (Herdotus Historicus)

5. μ. πολιτείας change of government, a revolution , (Thucydides)

6. as military term, a wheeling about , (Polybius Historicus); metaphorically of a speaker, (Aeschines Orator) (ML)