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περίοικος , ον,
A.dwelling round, “οἱ π. Λίβυες” Hdt.4.159; οἱ π. neighbours, Id.1.166, 175, Ephipp.5.6 ; ἡ π. (sc. χώρα) LXX Ge.19.25 ; τὸ π. τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ib.3 Ki.7.33(46); τὰ π. the neighbouring countries, App.Mith. 112, Hdn.6.2.1.
II. in Laconia, οἱ π. the inhabitants of the towns dependent on Sparta, Hdt.6.58,9.11, Th.1.101, etc.; also in Crete, Arist.Pol.1271b30 ; at Argos, ib.1303a8 : hence generally, dependent, subject, “περιοίκους τε καὶ οἰκέτας ἔχοντες” Pl.R.547c ; “ἐξὸν . . ἅπαντας τοὺς βαρβάρους περιοίκους τῆς Ἑλλάδος καταστῆσαι” Isoc.4.131.
III. geographically, περίοικοι, οἱ, those who live on the same parallel of latitude as ourselves but 180<*> East or West of us, opp. ἄντοικοι (v. Addenda), ἀντίποδες (qq. v.). Gem.16.1, Cleom.1.2.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.166
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.11
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 131
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