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ἀποπλα^ν-άω , fut. -ήσω,
A.lead astray, make to digress, “λόγον” Hp. Art.34, Luc.Anach.21; “ἀ. τινὰ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑποθέσεως” Aeschin.3.176:— Pass.,wander away from, “τῆς ὑποθέσεως” Isoc.7.77: abs., of leaderless wasps, Arist.HA554b23; wander from the truth, Alex.Aphr. in Metaph.139.12, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.33.
II. distribute, in Pass., “ἀποπλανᾶται ἐς πάντα αἷμα καὶ πνεῦμα” Hp.Alim.33.
III. metaph., seduce, beguile, “τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς” Ev.Marc.13.22.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 176
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 77
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 34
    • Hippocrates, De alimento, 33
    • New Testament, Mark, 13.22
    • Lucian, Anacharsis, 21
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