float

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb intransitive

swim: Ar. and P. νεῖν.

be carried along: P. and V. φέρεσθαι.

stream, wave: P. and V. φέρεσθαι, αἰωρεῖσθαι, V. ᾄσσεσθαι. ἀΐσσειν, ᾄσσειν.

then will float around you a strain of flutes: Ar. ἐντεῦθεν αὐλῶν τίς σε περίεισιν πνοή (Ranae 154).