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πολέω , (πέλω) mostly Poet.,
I. intr., go about, range ouer, haunt, “νῆσον Αἴαντος πολεῖ” A.Pers.307; “τί σὺ τῇδε πολεῖς;” E.Alc.29 (anap.); “τίς ὅδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀμφὶ μέλαθρον πολεῖ;” Id.Or.1270 (lyr.):—Med., “ὄψεις ἔννυχοι πολούμεναι ἐς παρθενῶνας” A.Pr.645 (dub., leg. πωλεύμεναι), cf. Ar.Av. 181: abs., πεφασμένως πολοῦνται Lex Sol. ap. Lys.10.19.
2. revolve, Pl.Cra.405d.
II. trans., turn up the earth with the plough, plough, “ἔαρι πολεῖν” Hes.Op.462; “π. ἀρούρας” Nic.Al.245.
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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