[help] Looking for a historical reference for the word 'change'

[youngfool]

Like Pyrrhic victory for hollow victory or Munich for giving in.

I'm trying to describe a complete reversal of a opinion.

Thanks.

[Slorm]

Not sure I can think of something off the top of my head but your reference to a Pyrrhic Victory is a bit off as "close victory" is by inference only.

 

The reference comes from the battles of King Pyrrhus against the Romans, having suffered such great losses the victory was in essence worthless. The term is used to denote a victory that causes such damage to the victor as to render it pointless or worthless.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to lecture you

[youngfool]

Not sure I can think of something off the top of my head but your reference to a Pyrrhic Victory is a bit off as "close victory" is by inference only.

 

The reference comes from the battles of King Pyrrhus against the Romans, having suffered such great losses the victory was in essence worthless. The term is used to denote a victory that causes such damage to the victor as to render it pointless or worthless.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to lecture you

 

No you are absolutely right, thank you for taking up the time to write all that.

[Guest MonsterFish]

Renunciation typically means the rejection of something, but not necessarily the change of opinion about it.

Conversion means to convert from one opinion to another, usually associated with religion.

Try Metanoia

[Slorm]

I can't find anything obvious but I'm assuming you're after an eponym so maybe try searching on "eponym" or "eponymous" on google which will give you lists you can search through

[Guest MonsterFish]

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

[Slorm]

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

 

LOL, but the term eponym comes from Classical Greek not Latin and is a standard term in English grammar in any case

 

Anyway, let's not derail the thread, hopefully the OP has something useful to search on now.

[Guest MonsterFish]

I wasn't really replying to you I was just saying if you want something to sound 'better' or 'historical', you can just put it in Latin.

[Slorm]

Apologies, I misread the context of your message

[naral]

in italian we use "capovolgimento" to describe a change in the opposite direction, the vocabulary translate it as: upturning, overturning, reversal, capsizing, inversion.

 

for historic references on such things comes to mind the battle of Alesia: Caesar reversed the very concept of siege.

or a complete change of mind could be "fulminato sulla via di Damasco" something i belive like "struck by lightning on the road to Damscus" a reference to the conversion of st. Paul.

 

[Slorm]

naral has it -  it's the Damascene Epiphany, though the OP would need to be careful using religious analogies

[youngfool]

This is great, thanks guys, Damascene Epiphany is spot on and the simpler version of it would be 'road to Damascus.' I have heard of this before, yes. Cheers