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πολύπλανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύπλανος πολύπλανον

Structure: πολυπλαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = poluplanh/s, Aesch., Eur.

Sense

Examples

  • πολύπλανον δὲ καὶ ταχὺ τὸ ἔθνοσ πρὸσ ἀπαναστάσεισ, ηὐξήθη τε ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ ἀθρόαν ἔλαβε τὴν ἔκλειψιν καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν τῶν Αἰολέων καὶ τῶν Ιὤνων περαίωσιν εἰσ τὴν Ἀσίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 3 6:8)
  • ἦν γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν γένοσ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐκ Πελοποννήσου τὸ ἀρχαῖον, ἐχρήσατο δὲ τύχαισ δυσπότμοισ εἰσ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα, μάλιστα δ’ εἰσ τὴν πολύπλανόν τε καὶ οὐδενὸσ τόπου βέβαιον οἴκησιν, πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ περὶ τὸ καλούμενον νῦν Ἀχαϊκὸν Ἄργοσ ᾤκησαν αὐτόχθονεσ ὄντεσ, ὡσ οἱ πολλοὶ περὶ αὐτῶν λέγουσι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 17 2:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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