Transitive meaning of the word "翻る"?


I was under the impression that the word 翻る（ひるがえる）is an intransitive verb
(which is also how it appears to be defined in dictionaries), but I've come
across a use of it that appears to be transitive, in the phrase
"今世紀に入ってからの歴史を翻っても…".

My question is, how should the word be interpreted in this context?




I feel 翻る here is used as a motion verb, which [often takes を even though it's
intransitive](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010). Perhaps the
author intended to mean "go over / go through (a document, etc) again" by
saying 翻る. I wouldn't say it's a common usage, but I wouldn't call it a
definitive mistake, either.

As you can see in [these
examples](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/188657/example/m0u/), 翻って考える is a
common idiom that literally means "turn back and think over again", and 翻って on
its own can mean the same thing.




I feel 翻る here is used as a motion verb, which [often takes を even though it's
intransitive](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3243/5010). Perhaps the
author intended to mean "go over / go through (a document, etc) again" by
saying 翻る. I wouldn't say it's a common usage, but I wouldn't call it a
definitive mistake, either.

As you can see in [these
examples](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/188657/example/m0u/), 翻って考える is a
common idiom that literally means "turn back and think over again", and 翻って on
its own can mean the same thing.

