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πλα?́ν-ης , ητος, ὁ,
A.wanderer, vagabond, ib.1029, E.IT417, Isoc.19.6 : c. gen., πόντου πλάνητες roamers of the sea, Trag.Adesp.100.
2. πλάνητες ἀστέρες planets, X.Mem. 4.7.5, Arist.Mete.342b28 ; and, simply, οἱ π. Id.APo.78a30,Fr.196, Plu.2.604a, etc.; τοὺς ἀστέρας τοὺς ἐνδεδεμένους, τοὺς δὲ π. Arist. Cael.290a19.
3. πλάνητες [πυρετοί] fevers that come in irregular fits, Hp.Epid.1.6, Aph.3.22; cf. “πλανήτης” 11.2.
II. as Adj., “ἄπορος καὶ π. βίος” Plu.Brut.33 ; “π. ὅμιλος” Polem.Call.18.56 : as fem., “πλάνητα πτῆσιν” Luc.Musc.Enc.9.
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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    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 417
    • Isocrates, Aegineticus, 6
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1029
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.7.5
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 3.22
    • Plutarch, Brutus, 33
    • Lucian, Muscae Encomium, 9
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