P l a n k t o s
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.
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: planktos
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