A.become dizzy, lose one's head, as when one looks down from a height, “ἰλιγγιῶν ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς” Pl.Tht.175d; from drunkenness, “ψυχὴ ἰ. ὥσπερ μεθύουσα” Id.Phd.79c; “ἰ. κάρα λίθῳ πεπληγμένος” Ar.Ach.1218; “ἰ. καὶ χασμᾶσθαι” Phld.Rh.2.176S.; from perplexity, “ἐσκοτώθην καὶ ἰλιγγίασα” Pl.Prt.339e; “ἰ. ὑπὸ τῆς τοῦ λόγου ἀπορίας” Id.Ly.216c; “ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους” Ar.Ach.581; “ἐπί τινι” Luc.Tox.30; “πρὸς τὴν θέαν” Hld.5.6:—also written εἰλιγγιάω, freq. in codd. of Pl., cf. AP7.706 (Diog.), Plu.Alex.74; “ἰλ-” Phld. l.c.; εἰλιγγιάω but ἴλιγγος acc. to Sch.Ar.Ach.581, Suid. s.v. εἰλιγγιῶ.
ἰλιγγ-ιάω [ι_],
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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