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ἐπικυ^λινδέω or ἐπικυκλ-κυλίω (Plb.3.53.4, D.S.19.19), fut. -κυλίσω [ι_]:—
A.roll down upon, “πέτρους ἐπί τινας” X.HG3.5.20; τοῖς ὁδοιποροῦσι πέτρας D.S.l.c., cf. Plb.l.c.:—Pass., “τὰ τμήματα τοῦ πελάγους -ισθέντα” Ph.2.109; τόκων τόκοις -κυλισθέντων interest being heaped on interest, Plu.2.831e; τὸ σιτίον εἰς τὸν στόμαχον -ινδεῖσθαι is slipped into . . , ib.699c; -ισθεῖσα overlaying the infant, Sor.1.106.
2.. Pass., to be applied by rolling, “ταῖς σαρξί” Gal.11.757.
3.. Pass., degenerate, “εἰς χρόνια πάθη” Id.19.560: metaph., [νοήσεις] δι᾽ ἀρρωστίαν -ούμεναι “καὶ ἐπιτρέχουσαι τοῖς εἴδεσιν” Dam.Pr.88.
4.. intr., roll on, κύματα Ps. -Luc.Philopatr.3.
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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