Dictionary Planktos

  • I. 1. - poet. Adj. wandering, roaming, of ships.
  • I. 2. - metaph., wandering in mind, erring, distraught, Hom. Od. 21.363, Aesch. Ag. 593.
  • II.- Planktai petrai rocks near Scylla and Charybdis, Hom. Od. 12.59 sqq., au=Hom. Od. 12.59s23.327=lr; later identified with the Sumplêgades or Kuaneai of the Bosporus, Hdt. 4.85, Arr.Peripl.M.Eux.25, Eratosth.ap.Sch.E.Med. 2, etc.; but also with the volcanic islands of Lipari, A.R.4.924, cf. Apollod. 1.9.25.

See also

  • Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: planktos

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