πολύτροπος

From πολῠ́ς (polús, “many”) +‎ τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) +‎ -ος (-os).

πολῠ́τροπος • (polútropos) m, f (neuter πολῠ́τροπον); second declension

1. much turned, much traveled, much wandering
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2:

     Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
     πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·

     Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
     plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse;

     Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:

   • Homer, Odyssey 10.330
2. turning many ways
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 215
   1. (metaphoric) shifty, versatile, wily
      • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 13.439
   2. (of diseases) changeful, complicated
      • Plutarch, Life of Numa
3. various, manifold
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.44

• πολύτροπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολύτροπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πολύτροπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πολύτροπος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers