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περιτίθημι ,
A.place or put round, put on, “περὶ δὲ ξύλα θῆκαν” Od. 18.308; δέραισι περθέτω (Aeol.) . . “ὐποθύμιδας” Alc.36 ; “π. κυνέην τινί” Hdt.2.162 ; “στεφάνους τινί” Id.6.69 ; “πιλίδια περὶ τὴν κεφαλήν” Pl.R. 406d; χρυσόν ib.420e ; φωνήεσί τε καὶ ἀφώνοις π. γράμματα attach letters to . . , Id.Cra.393e, cf. 414c ; “π. σφαῖραν” Arist.Cael.285b3; “σκληρὸν περὶ τὸ σαρκῶδες περιέθηκεν ἡ φύσις” Id.PA685a8 ; “δέρματα ἐπὶ τοὺς βραχίονας” LXX Ge.27.16 ; “περίβολον τῷ τεμένει” IG12(9).906.7 (Chalcis, iii A. D.):—Med., put round oneself, put on, “περὶ δὲ τρυφάλειαν . . κρατὶ θέτο” Il.19.381 ; “περὶ δὲ ξίφος ὀξὺ θέτ᾽ ὤμῳ” Od.2.3,4.308; περθέμενον χλάμυν (Aeol. for περι-) prob. in Sapph.64 ; “π. στέφανον” E.Med.984 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Th.380, al.; “στρεπτόν” X.Cyr.2.4.6 ; “σκευήν” Pl.Cri.53d ; “δακτύλιον” Id.R.360b ; “βασιλείαν” OGI90.44 (Rosetta, ii B.C.); “διάδημα αὐτὸς περιεθήκατο” App.Mith.67.
II. metaph., bestow, confer upon, π. τινὶ βασιληΐην, κράτος, ἐλευθερίην, Hdt.1.129, 3.81, 142, Simon.100; πόλει τὸ κάλλιστον ὄνομα, τινὶ δόξαν, Th.4.87, Isoc.5.149, etc.; π. τινὶ ὄνειδος, ἀτιμίαν, put reproach, dishonour upon him, Antipho 5.18, Th.6.89 ; “πίστιν τισί” Aeschin.2.103 ; “συμφοράν” Antipho 2.3.1 ; Μηδικὴν ἀχὴν τοῖς Ἕλλησι put the Median yoke round their necks, Th.8.43 ; ὁ πυκτικὸς . . οὐ πᾶσι τὴν αὐτὴν μάχην π. does not prescribe . . , Arist.EN1180b11 ; τῇ Ἀθηνᾷ τὴν τέχνην ascribe, Id.Pol.1341b8 ; [“ταῖς πράξεσι] μέγεθος π. καὶ κάλλος” Id.Rh.1368a29 :— Med., assume, “ἰσχὺν ἑαυτῷ” Democr.252 ; “σχῆμα ἀλλότριον” Arr.Epict. 2.19.28.
2. reversely, π. τινὰ ὕβρει envelop him with . . , D.L.6.33.
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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