A.= κυλινδέομαι (q. v.), roll about, wallow, ἀποθνῄσκοντες ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς ἐκαλινδοῦντο, of plaguestricken persons, Th.2.52; of birds, κ. ἐν τῇ γῇ, κ. τοῖς πτεροῖς πρὸς τὴν κόνιν, Arist.HA612a20,b24; <“ἐν> ῥεύμασι” Plu.Tim.28; ἐπὶ ἐλαίου, as a form of exercise, Gal.6.220, cf. 324; roam, “κατὰ τὰς νάπας” X. An.5.2.31; “ἐν τῇσι στοιῇσι” Hdt.3.52: metaph., ἐν θιάσοις καὶ μεθύουσιν ἀνθρώποις κ. D.19.199: hence, to be continually busy with, pass one's time in a thing, “ἐν τῷ πειρᾶσθαι” X.Cyr.1.4.5 (v.l. κυλινδ-）; περὶ τὰς ἔριδας, περὶ τὰ δικαστήρια, Isoc.13.20, 15.30; “κ. ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος” Id.5.81 (v.l. κυλ-）“; ἐν ἀγοραῖς” S.E.M.2.27.
κα^λινδ-έομαι , only in pres. and impf.,
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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