μεταπτωτικός. [140] 20. Variable. Lat. mutabilis. So μεταπίπτειν [96] 17, [250] 7.
μετασκευή. [104] 19, [108] 9, [110] 16 (e coni. Schaef.), [114] 10. Modification. Lat. mutatio. So μετασκευάζειν [110] 6. Cp. text in [110] 16 with [104] 19, [108] 9.
μεταφορά. [78] 15. Transference, metaphor. “The figure of transport,” Puttenham. Lat. translatio.
μετέωρος. [148] 23. Upper. Lat. superior (τοὺς μετεώρους ὀδόντας = dentes superiores).
μετοχή. [72] 1. Participle. Lat. participium. Cp. D.H. p. 196.
μετρικός. [140] 11, [172] 2, [174] 22, [176] 7, [218] 19. Metrical. Lat. metricus. [172] 2 and [174] 22 οἱ μετρικοί = ‘the metrists,’ ‘the theorists on metre’: cp. οἱ ῥυθμικοί [172] 20.
μέτριος. [132] 8, [150] 9, [214] 12, [222] 26, [230] 22, [234] 22, [246] 13. Moderate, fair. Lat. aequus.
μέτρον. [74] 5, [84] 16, [88] 6, 8, [92] 22, [118] 22, [120] 26, [172] 17, passim. Measure, metre, verse, line. Lat. metrum, versus. In Aristot. Poet. iv. 7 metres are described as sections of rhythm (τὰ γὰρ μέτρα ὅτι μόρια τῶν ῥυθμῶν ἐστι φανερόν): that is, they are ‘measures,’ or ‘verses’; ‘parts of rhythm,’ which is indefinite and never comes to an end—μέτρον being rhythm cut, as it were, into definite lengths (Cope Introduction to Aristotle’s Rhetoric p. 387). When contrasted with μέλη (cp. Plato Gorg. 502 C τό τε μέλος—‘the music’—καὶ τὸν ῥυθμὸν καὶ τὸ μέτρον), μέτρα seems to denote the non-lyrical metres generally (hexameters, iambic trimeters, etc.): see [92] 22, [120] 26, [192] 21, and especially [270] 18-23.
μῆκος. [150] 22, [154] 6, [204] 2, [224] 15, [264] 4. Length. Lat. longitudo. So μηκύνειν (to lengthen) [132] 7, [152] 24, [224] 8, 13, [246] 8. In [246] 8 (and also in [276] 9, where P gives μηκύνειν and MV give μηκύνειν τὸν λόγον) μηκύνειν is used absolutely (= μακρηγορεῖν: cp. Aristoph. Lys. 1131 πόσους εἴποιμ’ ἂν ἄλλους, εἴ με μηκύνειν δέοι;). In [132] 7 the meaning is ‘to prolong, or continue, in the same case with similar terminations’: just as Dionysius himself, inadvertently no doubt, repeats -ων in [132] 9, 10.