A.“ κύλιε” Ar.V.202, (ἀνα-）“ κυλῖον” Alex.116:—roll along, γαστέρας αἱμοβόρως ἐκύλιον, of serpents, Theoc.24.18; “κυλίουσιν [ἀλλήλους] ἐν τῷ πηλῷ” Luc.Anach.6; λόγοις τοὺς ῥήτορας κ. rolling them over, Com.Adesp.294 codd.: freq. in later Gr., LXX Jo.10.18, al.: metaph., “ἐκ κισσηρεφέος κεφαλῆς εὔϋμνα κυλίων ῥήματα” Call.Epigr.in Berl.Sitzb.1912.548:—Pass., roll, whirl along, Arist.Cael.290a25, al.; of bees, grovel, Id.HA625b5; “πρὸς τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ γόνασι κυλιομένην” D.H.8.39; κ. περὶ τὴν ἀγοράν to be always loitering there, Arist.Pol.1319a29; roll about, in pantomime, Id.Po. 1461b31.
κυ^λίω [ι_], later form of κυλίνδω: (προσ-）
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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