ἐπιστροφάδην
From LSJ
ἐν τῷ διὰ τῆς κατασκευῆς παρεπιφαινομένῳ περίττῳ → through some excess thing which results through poetic elaboration
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], Adv.
A turning this way and that way, κτεῖνε δ' επιστροφάδην Il.10.483; τύπτε δ' ἐ. 21.20, cf. Od.22.308, 24.184 (or perh., = ἐπιστρεφῶς, earnestly, vehemently, cf. Hsch.); ἐ. βαδίζειν wander back- and forwards, h.Merc.210; on all sides, Opp.C.1.79: Poet. and late Prose, ἐ. κτείνειν, ἀναιρεῖν, Ph.2.33,320.
