πολύπλαγκτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, ([[πλάζω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[much-wandering]], [[wide-roaming]], ληϊστῆρσι π. <span class="bibl">Od.17.425</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">511</span>; of <span class="bibl">10</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>572</span> (lyr.); π. ἔτεα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1.186</span> (lyr.); οὐκ ἂν εἰδείης ἕτερον… πολυπλαγκτότερον <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1197</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[ever-moving]], [[ἰκτῖνοι]] (prob.l.) <span class="bibl">Thgn.1257</span>; μέλεα <span class="bibl">Parm.16.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[much-erring]], πραπίδες <span class="title">IG</span>14.1424 (Rome). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[driving far from one's course]], [[ἄνεμος]] <span class="bibl">Il.11.308</span> (unless in signf. <span class="bibl">1.1</span>).—In <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>615</span> (lyr.) <b class="b3">πολύπλαγκτος ἐλπίς</b> may be either [[wandering]], [[uncertain]] [[hope]], or, [[misleading]], [[deceitful]]; cf. [[πολυπλανής]] ''ΙΙ''.</span>