πλάζω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), Ep.impf. <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> πλάζον <span class="bibl">Od.2.396</span> : aor. [[ἔπλαγξα]] (παρ-) <span class="bibl">9.81</span>; Ep. πλάγξα <span class="bibl">24.307</span> :—Pass. and Med., <span class="bibl">3.106</span>, etc.; Ep. impf. πλαζόμην <span class="bibl">5.389</span> : fut. πλάγξομαι <span class="bibl">15.312</span> : aor. [[ἐπλάγχθην]] ([[ἀπ]]-) <span class="bibl">Il.22.291</span> ; Ep. πλάγχθην <span class="bibl">Od.1.2</span> ; inf. [[πλάγξασθαι]] dub. in <span class="bibl">A.R.3.261</span> : pres. Med. also πλάττονται <span class="bibl">Parm.6.5</span> codd.:—poet. Verb (rare in Prose, v. infr.), [[turn aside]] or [[away from]], πλάζει δ' ἀπὸ πατρίδος αἴης <span class="bibl">Od.1.75</span> ; ἀλλά με δαίμων πλάγξ' ἀπὸ Σικανίης δεῦρ' ἐλθέμεν <span class="bibl">24.307</span> ; [πρὼν… ποταμοῖσι] ῥόον πεδίονδε τίθησι πλάζων <span class="bibl">Il.17.751</span> :—Pass., <b class="b3">πλάγχθη δ' ἀπὸ χαλκόφι χαλκός</b> bronze [[glanced off]] from bronze, <span class="bibl">11.351</span> ; <b class="b3">πάλιν πλαγχθέντας ὀΐω ἂψ ἀπονοστήσειν</b> [[balked]], [[baffled]], <span class="bibl">1.59</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.13.5</span> ; <b class="b3">τίς πλάγχθη πολὺ μόχθος ἔξω</b>; what woe [[is warded off]] afar ? <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1231</span> (lyr.); κεῖθεν δὲ πλαγχθέντες ἱκάνομεν ἐνθάδε <span class="bibl">Od.13.278</span> ; Σκύρου μὲν ἅμαρτε, πλαγχθέντες δ' εἰς Ἐφύραν ἵκοντο <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.37</span> (s.v.l.); [<b class="b3">Ἀλέξανδρος] ἐπλάζετο ἄγων [Ἑλένην</b>] <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.117</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">116</span> ; ἀκταῖσιν ὁρμεῖ, δαρὸν ἐκ Τροίας χρόνον ἄλαισι πλαγχθείς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>56</span>; of an exile, Ἄργεϊ νάσθη πλαγχθείς <span class="bibl">Il.14.120</span>; <b class="b3">γένεσις καὶ ὄλεθρος τῆλε μάλ' ἐπλάχθησαν</b> [[have been banished]] afar, <span class="bibl">Parm.8.28</span> : metaph., ὁ νέος… ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης… πλάζεται, ὁ δὲ γέρων καθάπερ ἐν λιμένι τῷ γήρᾳ καθώρμικεν <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Sent.Vat.</span> 17</span>; so perh. ἔνθα δύω νύκτας δύο τ' ἤματα κύματι πηγῷ πλάζετο <span class="bibl">Od.5.389</span> (v. infr. <span class="bibl">11</span>). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[baffle]], [[thwart]], [[balk]], esp. mentally, οἵ με μέγα πλάζουσι καὶ οὐκ εἰῶσ' ἐθέλοντα Ἰλιου ἐκπέρσαι… πτολίεθρον <span class="bibl">Il.2.132</span> ; <b class="b3">πλάζε δὲ πίνοντας</b> [[balked]] or [[bewildered]] them as they drank, <span class="bibl">Od.2.396</span>; <b class="b3">πίνοντες ἐπλάζοντο</b>, i.e. became drunk, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>166</span> ; μαινομένῳ πιτύλῳ πλαγχθείς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1189</span> (lyr.) ; ὁκόσα ἰνδαλμοῖσι διαλλάττοντα ἀνὰ τὸν ἠέρα πλάζει ἡμέας <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Ep.</span>18</span> ; [[embarrass]], [[trip up]], πλάζει τὸν παῖδα τὰ σάνδαλα <span class="title">AP</span> 7.365 (Zon.) ; <b class="b3">ἐπλάζοντο πρὸς οὐδένα σκοπόν</b> [[wavered]] aimlessly, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Mar.</span>36</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> Pass., [[go astray]], πλαγχθέντα ἧς ἀπὸ νηός <span class="bibl">Od.6.278</span> : c. gen., ἁμαξιτοῦ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>283</span> ; μανδρῶν πλαζομένων χοίρων τρειῶν <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>4.647.6 (Maeonia, ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[lose]], [[be deprived of]], ὀμμάτων ἐπλάγχθη <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>784</span> (lyr., <b class="b3">ἀπ' ὀμμ</b>. codd.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> Pass., [[wander]], [[rove]], πλάζομαι ὧδ' <span class="bibl">Il.10.91</span> ; ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη <span class="bibl">Od.1.2</span> ; <b class="b3">πῇ… πλάζομαι</b>; <span class="bibl">13.204</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">3.95</span>, <span class="bibl">16.64</span> ; ἐπὶ πόντον πλαζόμενοι κατὰ ληΐδ' <span class="bibl">3.106</span>; πλάζεσθαι μετ' ἐκεῖνον <span class="bibl">16.151</span> ; ἀλλά πῃ ἄλλῃ πλάζετ' ἐπ' ἀνθρώπους <span class="bibl">3.252</span>; κατὰ δὲ πτόλιν αὐτὸς ἀνάγκῃ πλάγξομαι <span class="bibl">15.312</span> ; <b class="b3">οἱ πλαζόμενοι</b> the [[planets]], <span class="bibl">Ti.Locr.97a</span>: never in Com. or correct Att. Prose. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">μέγα κῦμα πλάζ' ὤμους καθύπερθε</b> [[struck]] his shoulders, <span class="bibl">Il.21.269</span>: here and in <span class="bibl">Od.5.389</span> (v. supr. <span class="bibl">1.1</span> fin.) Aristarch. (ap.<span class="title">An.Ox.</span>1.149) took <b class="b3">πλάζω [ᾱ</b> by nature] as a dialectal form of [[πλήσσω]], perh. rightly; cf. <b class="b3">ἐπιπλάζω, προσπλάζω</b>. (In signf. 1 related to [[πλάγιος]] as [[ἅζομαι]] to [[ἅγιος]]; for <b class="b3">πλαγξ-, πλαγχθ-</b> codd. sts. have <b class="b3">πλαξ-, πλαχθ-</b>, as v.l., <span class="bibl">Il.1.59</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.1.2</span>, <span class="bibl">9.81</span> (παρ-), <span class="bibl">Parm.8.28</span> ; in signf. <span class="bibl">11</span> perh. a different word.)</span><br /><span class="bld">πλάζω</span> (B), <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> = [[πλάσσω]] (Tarent.), <span class="title">An.Ox.</span>1.62.</span>