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τροχήλ-α^τος , ον,
A.wheel-drawn, “σκηναί” A.Pers.1001 (lyr.); “δίφροι” S.El.49.
2. dragged by or at the wheels, “σφαγαὶ Ἕκτορος τροχήλατοι” E.Andr.399.
3. ploughed with wheels, “κελεύθου τρίοδος” A.Fr.173.
4. formed on the potter's wheel, “λύχνος” Ar.Ec.1, cf. Xenarch.1.9.
5. metaph., hurried along like a wheel or chariot, E.HF122 (lyr.); τ. μανία whirling madness, Id.IT82.
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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    • Aeschylus, Persians, 1001
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 1
    • Euripides, Andromache, 399
    • Euripides, Heracles, 122
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 82
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