A.girdle worn round the loins, PRev.Laws94.7 (iii B. C.), Plu.Rom.21 (in form περί-ζωσμα ), Poll.7.65, etc.; worn by athletes, Paus.1.44.1; by priests, Plu.Aem.33; by smiths, Arr. Epict.4.8.16; ἔχειν π. wear the apron, of a cook, Hegesipp.Com.1.7 : hence “οἱ λόγοι σου περιζώματος ὄζουσιν” Plu.2.182d; ἀσκεῖν ἐκ περιζώματος practise an art with the apron on. i.e. merely with the outward appendage of an art, superficially, D.H.Din.1; of soldiers, underclothing, ἐν περιζώμασιν, opp. ἐν θώραξι, Plb.6.25.3.
περί-ζωμα , ατος, τό,
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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