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[63] δινηθῆναι, lit. ‘whirled,’ ‘wheeled about,’ but here ‘wandered about’: so 9. 153 “νῆσον θαυμάζοντες ἐδινεόμεσθα κατ᾽ αὐτήν”, also 19. 67 “δινεύων κατὰ οἶκον”. This derivative sense is probably colloquial. It can hardly be traced in the Iliad (except doubtfully in 4. 541).

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