The corpus record

παλινάγρετος

palinagretos

to be taken back

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be taken back, recalled, revocable, recoverable

to be taken back or recalled, οὐ π. οὐδʼ ἀπατηλόν irrevocable, Il. 1.526; π. ἀάτη Hes. Sc. 93; νεότατα δʼ ἔχειν π. οὐκ ἔστι Theoc. 29.28; π. αἰών, ἀρχή, etc., Nonn. D. 3.255, 6.175, al.; recoverable, of an element, Numen. ap. Eus. PE 15.17.

2 retracting his words

retracting his words, of the philosopher Arcesilaus, Id.ib. 14.5.

In the wild

παλινάγρετον · palinagreton Epictetus, Discourses 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 2284)
παλινάγρετον · palinagreton Epictetus, Discourses 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 2294)
παλινάγρετός · palinagretos Shield of Heracles 93
παλινάγρετον · palinagreton Iliad 1.526

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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