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περιπλα^ν-άομαι ,
A.wander about, [Κρήτην] Hdt.4.151 : metaph., float round about one, as the lion's skin round Heracles, Pi.I. 6(5).47.
2. abs., wander, Luc.Herm.59, D.C.47.21, etc.: metaph., ταῦτα π. to be in this state of uncertainty, X.Cyr.1.3.5; “περιπλανᾶσθαι τὸν αὐλικὸν . . ᾑρημένον βίον” Phld.Ind.Sto.13; περιπεπλανημένα μέτρα erratic, irregular, D.H.Dem.50.
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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