I.The orig. sense, to be in motion, appears in Hom., κλαγγὴ πέλει οὐρανόθι πρό the cry goes, rises to heaven, Il.; τῶι δεκάτηι πέλεν ἠώς to him came the tenth morn, Od.; γῆρας καὶ θάνατος ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι πέλονται old age and death come upon men, id=Od.:—this sense of motion is plain in the compd. participles ἐπιπλόμενος, περιπλόμενος.
Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.
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