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πολυ-πλα^νής , ές, (πλανάομαι)
A.roaming far or long, ἐν ἁλὶ πολυπλανής (sc. Menelaus) E.Hel.203 (lyr.); εἶδος κτημάτων π., opp. ἀπλανές, Pl.Plt.288a; π. κισσός the straying ivy, AP6.154 (Leon. or Gaet.); “π. πορεία” devious, Plu.Crass.29; “π. ἐν γράμμασι” Id.2.422d. Adv. “-νῶς” wandering in all directions, Hp.Oss.12.
II. much-erring (or Act., leading much astray), “Ἐλπὶς καὶ Τύχη” AP9.134; “ἔπεα” Musae.175. [-πλα_νης metri gr. in Opp.C.4.358.]
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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    • Euripides, Helen, 203
    • Plato, Statesman, 288a
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