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περίδρομ-ος , ον,
A.running round, encircling, “δοιαὶ δὲ π. ἄντυγές εἰσι” Il.5.728 ; πλῆμναι π. ἀμφοτέρωθεν ib.726 ; of the rim of a shield, E.El.458(lyr.), A.Th.495 ; of a net, Opp.H.3.99; “κύκλον π. αἰὲν ἑλίσσων” Orph.Fr.236 : c. dat., [“ἃλς] νήσοισι περίδρομος” D.P.60: dub. sens. in IG22.463.54.
2. wandering, roaming, ἱκέτις φυγὰς π. A.Supp.350 (lyr.); “κύνες” Ar. Ra.472 ; γυνὴ π. gadabout woman, Thgn.581.
II. Pass., that can be run round: hence, standing apart, detached, “κολώνη . . π. ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα” Il.2.812 ; αὐλὴ π. Od.14.7; “αὐλών” Carc.1 ; circular, D.P.5, 718.
2. surrounded, κοίλη . . ὄρεσι π., of Laconia, E.Fr.1083; “π. οὔρεσι γαῖα” A.R.3.1085.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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