stray
From LSJ
τί ἦ μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην → but what is this to me, about an oak or a rock | but what are these things about a tree or a rock to me | why all this about trees and rocks | why all this about what we have nothing to do with | but why am I off on this tangent
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
P. and V. πλανᾶσθαι, ἀλᾶσθαι περιπολεῖν; see wander.
go wrong: P. and V. ἁμαρτάνειν, ἐξαμαρτάνειν, σφάλλεσθαι.
of the mind: P. and V. πλανᾶσθαι.
this lock of hair has strayed from its place: V. ἐξ ἕδρας σοι πλόκαμος ἐξέστηχ' ὅδε (Euripides, Bacchae 928).
adjective
chance: P. and V. ὁ τυχών, ὁ ἐπιτυχών, ὁ προστυχών, ὁ συντυχών.
