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κλόν-ος , ὁ, Hom. (only in Il.),
A.confused motion, turmoil, esp. battle-rout, “κατὰ κλόνον” Il.16.331, 713; κ. ἐλχειάων throng of spears, 5.167, 20.319; ἐν δὲ κλόνον ἧκε κακόν [Ἀπόλλων] 16.729; κ. ἀνδρῶν throng of men, Hes.Sc.148; Trag.(not in S.) only in lyr., ἱππιοχάρμας κλόνους throngs of fighting horsemen, A.Pers.106; “ἀσπίστορας κλόνους” Id.Ag.404; “σκέψαι κλόνον . . Γιγάντων” E.Ion206: in later Prose, trembling, confusion, Aq.Ez.12.8, Them.Or.6.73b; agitation of mind, “ὁ ἄφρων σάλον καὶ κ. ὑπομένει” Ph.1.230.
II. agitation in physiological sense, of wind in the bowels, Ar.Nu.387; “κλόνου πάταγος” Aret.SD1.7; “οἱονεί τινα σφυγμὸν καὶ κ. ἔχοντος τοῦ πνεύματος” Plu.2.681a; of the pulse, Gal.9.76; of the body generally, ib.651: generally, shaking, agitation, Alex.Aphr.in Top.466.25.
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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