A.“ἠλέλιζον” Hsch., poet. “ἐλέλιζον” Maiist.42, Nonn.D. 2.525: mostly in aor. (v. infr.):—Pass., impf.h.Hom.28.9: Ep.aor. “ἐλέλικτο” Il.13.558: pf. “ἐλέλιγμαι” Cerc.6.18:—whirl round, περὶ σχεδίην ἐλέλιξε [τὸ κῦμα] Od.5.314; ἡ δ᾽ ἐλελίχθη [ἡ νηῦς] 12.416.
2. Med. and Pass., move in coils or spires, of a serpent, “τὴν δ᾽ ἐλελιξάμενος πτέρυγος λάβεν” Il.2.316; ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῦ (sc. τελαμῶνος)“ ἐλέλικτο δράκων” 11.39, cf. A.R.4.143; “σπείρας ὄφεων ἐλελιζομένη” Ar.Fr. 500.
II. in Il. of an army, cause it to turn and face the enemy, rally it, “σφεας ὦκ᾽ ἐλέλιξεν Αἴας” 17.278:—in Pass., “οἱ δ᾽ ἐλελίχθησαν” 5.497, 6.106; cf. “ἑλίσσω” 11.1.
III. cause to vibrate, μέγαν δ᾽ ἐλέλιξεν Ὄλυμπον, of Zeus, ib.1.530, cf. 8.199; φόρμιγγα ἐ. make its strings quiver, Pi.O.9.13; “ἀστεροπὰν ἐλελίξαις” Id.N.9.19:—Med., “ἵππον . . ἀγωνίῳ ἐλελιζόμενος ποδὶ μίμεο” Simon.29:—Pass., quake, tremble, quiver, “ἐλελίχθη γυῖα” Il.22.448; ἐλέλικτο, of a brandished spear, 13.558; “ἀμφὶ δὲ πέπλος ἐλελίζετο ποσσίν” h.Cer.183; μέγας δ᾽ ἐλελίζετ᾽ Ὄλυμπος h.Hom. l.c.; “φόρμιγξ ἐλελιζομένα” Pi.P.1.4. (In Hom. ἐλελ- may have been substituted for ἐϝελ- (ϝεϝελ- in ἐλέλικτο); cf. ἑλίσσω.)