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πλάνος [α^], ον,
1. Act., leading astray, deceiving, π. κατέσειον ἐδωδάν the bait, Theoc.21.43, cf. AP7.702 (Apollonid.); π. δῶρα, ἄγρα, Mosch.1.29, Fr.1.10; “πνεύματα” 1 Ep.Ti.4.1.
2. Pass., wandering, roaming, fickle, “ποικίλον πρᾶγμ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ πλάνον τύχη” Men.Kith.Fr.8 ; π. φέγγη planets, Man.4.3.
II. Subst. πλάνος, ὁ, = πλάνη, wandering, roaming, S.OC1114, E.Alc.482, etc.: in pl., Ar.V.873 (lyr.), etc.
b. κερκίδος πλάνοι, of the act of weaving, E.Ion 1491 (lyr.).
2. metaph., φροντίδος πλάνοι wanderings of thought, S.OT67; π. φρενῶν wandering of mind, madness, E.Hipp.283 ; “π. τε καρδίᾳ προσίσταται” Id.Fr.1038; πλάνοις in uncertain fits, of a disease, S.Ph.758; = πλάνη 11.1, Pl.Phd.79d.
3. digression, Id.Ep.344d.
4. error, Ceb.25, Diog.Oen.26 ; grammatical mistake, A.D.Pron.84.11.
III. of persons, πλάνος, ὁ, vagabond,impostor, Nicostr.Com.24, Dionys.Com. 4, D.S.34/5.2.14, Ev.Matt.27.63.
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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