The corpus record

πᾰλίνδρομ-ος

palindromos

running back again

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

running back again, recurring, recurring, back again, uncertain

running back again, π. ἄπιθι Luc. Tim. 37; recurring, σελήνη π. ἀνάμνησις Secund. Sent. 6; π. ἔλλαβε πένθος recurring, Epigr.Gr. 233.7 (Chios); μνᾶς . . παλινδρόμους ἀπολαβεῖν back again, D.L. 2.65: metaph., uncertain, S.E. P. 2.203.

In the wild

παλινδρόμους · palindromous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1540)

Where it came from

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