The corpus record

πᾰλίμ-βολος

palimbolos

reversed, untrustworthy, unstable, turned

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Where it lives

Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

πᾰλίμ-βολος · palim-bolos — LSJ

reversed, untrustworthy, unstable, turned, patched

reversed, γνώμη Sch. Ar. Nu. 298: hence, untrustworthy, unstable, ἤθη π. καὶ ἄπιστα Pl. Lg. 705a, cf. D.Chr. 31.37, Aristaenet. 1.28; δολερὸς καὶ π. Plu. Crass. 21; τὸ π., = παλιμβολία, Aeschin. 2.40; of a slave, = παλίμπρατος, Men. 445; πέδιλα π. turned or patched sandals, Nic. Fr. 85. Adv. -λως Poll. 3.132.

In the wild

παλίμβολα · palimbola Plato, Laws 705

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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