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πλα?́ν-η , ἡ,
A.wandering, roaming, Hdt.1.30, 2.103, 116 : freq. in A.Pr., in sg., 622, 784, al.: in pl., τηλέπλανοι, πολύπλανοι πλάναι, 576(lyr.), 585(lyr.), cf. Ar.V.873 (lyr.).
2. discursive treatment, ἡ διὰ παντὸς διέξοδος καὶ π. Pl.Prm.136e; “ἡ π. τοῦ λόγου” Id.Lg.683a.
II. metaph., going astray, βίοτος ἀνθρώπων π. E.Fr. 659.8; “π. καὶ ἄνοια” Pl.Phd.81a; “πλάνης ἔμπλεῳ” Id.R.505c ; ἡ περὶ τὰ χρώματα π. τῆς ὄψεως the illusion, ib.602c; πολλὴν ἔχει . . πλάνην irregularity, Arist.EN1094b16 ; πολλὰς ἀπορίας ἔχει καὶ π. Id.de An. 402a21 ; ἡ κατὰ τὰς αἰσθήσεις π. Epicur.Nat.28 Fr.7; “π. καὶ παραλογισμός” Phld.Rh.1.30S., cf. Diog.Oen.33.
2. deceit, imposture, LXX Pr.14.8, Ev.Matt.27.64.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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