ANTIMETABOLE, in rhetoric, a figure which sets two things in opposition to each other. The word is Greek, compounded of anti, against, and metabolon from metabolao, I shift or transfer; i. e. a shifting, or setting two things over-against each other. This figure is twice exemplified in an apophthegm of Musonius; which, on account of its excellence, is called aurium monitum, the golden maxim or precept.