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πολεύω , = sq.
I. intr., turn or go about, κατὰ ἄστυ π. go about the city, i.e. live therein, Od.22.223; ὁ πολεύων, in Astrol., the planet presiding ouer a day, Serapio in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.99, PMag.Leid.W.5.47, Paul.Al.I.3; “ὄψῃ τοὺς πολεύοντας ἀναβαίνοντας εἰς οὐρανὸν θεούς, ἄλλους δὲ καταβαίνοντας” PMag.Par.1.545, cf. Iamb.Myst.3.30.
II. trans., turn up the soil with the plough, “γᾶν . . ἱππείῳ γένει π.” S.Ant. 341 (lyr.).—Poet. and late Prose.
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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