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περίδρομ-ος , ὁ, Subst.,
A.that which surrounds, edge, rim, of a shield, E.Tr.1197; τοῦ τείχους ὁ π. circuit of the wall, Pl.Criti.116b ; τῆς τομῆς, in amputation, Archig. ap. Orib.47.13.7; string that runs round the top of a net, X.Cyn.2.6, 10.7, etc. ; gallery running round a building, Ar.Fr.133, X.Cyr.6.1.53, Hld.4.8; line round the head which defines the scalp, Poll.2.40 ; “ὁ π. τῶν τριχῶν” Arist.Phgn.808a26 ; ὠκεανὸς πάσης φύσεως π. Secund.Sent.2; ἐν π. in a circle, Plu.2.731d.
II. orbit, “ἡλίου” Placit.2.1.4; lap of a race, αἱ περίοδοι τῶν π. D.C.49.43.
III. pl., circuit-judges at Mytilene, IG 12(2).6.12(iv B. C.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 1197
    • Plato, Critias, 116b
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 6.1.53
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.7
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 2.6
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 49.43
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