Note 183 — Chapter II

Ὁλοιτρόχους.] A word borrowed from Homer, signifying properly a round stone fit for rolling, or a stone that has been made round by rolling, as a pebble in the sea. It was originally an adjective, with πέτρος understood. Most critics suppose it to be from ὅλος and τρέχω, totus teres atque rotundus. Liddell and Scott derive it from εἴλω, volvo. See Theocr. xxii. 49.