A.“περιεῖλον” Hdt.3.159, etc.:—take away something that surrounds, strip off, remove, c. acc. rei, τεῖχος Hdt.l.c., cf. 6.46, Th.1.108, 4.51, 133; π. τὸν κέραμον taking off the earthen jar into which the gold had been run, Hdt.3.96; “π. τὸν χιτῶνα” Arist.HA557b20; δέρματα σωμάτων π. strip skins off from . . , Pl.Plt.288e; “αὐτοῦ τὰ κοινὰ πάντα περιελόντες” Id.Sph.264e; “π. τινὰ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐξουσίας” Hdn.3.11.3; simply, take away from, “τῶν πολεμικῶν τὸ μελετᾶν” X.Cyr.2.1.21, etc.:—Med., take off from oneself, π. τὴν κυνέην, τὴν σφρηγῖδα, take off one's helmet, one's signet-ring, Hdt.2.151, 3.41; “τὰς ταινίας” Pl.Smp.213a; βυβλίον περιαιρεόμενος taking [the cover] off one's letter, i. e. opening it, Hdt.3.128; “π. τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῆς ἀπολογίας αὑτοῦ” Lycurg.35: but Med. is freq. used like Act., strip off, take away, “τὸ περιελέσθαι αὐτῶν τὰ ὅπλα” X. Cyr.8.1.47; “εἴ τις περιελοιτο τῆς ποιήσεως τὸ μέλος” Pl.Grg.502c (v.l. for περιέλοι）“ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὑμῶν περιῄρηνται” D.19.220 ; “ἁπάντων τὴν ἐλευθερίαν περιείλετο” Id.18.65; “περιείλοντό μου ὑποζύγια δύο” PCair.Zen.659.7(iii B. C.):—Pass., to be taken off, “τοὐπίβλημ᾽ ἐπεὶ περιῃρέθη” Nicostr.Com.15; τοῦ ἄλλου περιῃρημένου when the rest has been taken away, Th.3.11; “περιῃρημένων τοσούτων κακῶν” Pl.Phdr.231b; “τείχη περιῃρημένα” D.19.65.
2. make void, cancel a vow, LXXNu.30.13.
3. strike off, cancel an item in an account, PCair.Zen.147 (iii B. C.):—Pass., Sammelb.5136.8 (iii A. D.).
II. Pass., c. acc. rei, to be stripped of a thing, have a thing taken off or away from one, “περιῃρημένοι χρήματα καὶ συμμάχους” D.3.31; “περιαιρεθεὶς τὰ ὄντα” Id.21.138; “τοὺς στεφάνους περιῄρηνται” Id.26.5: with acc. understood, “περιαιρεθήσεσθαι ἤμελλον” Epicur.Nat.15.34.
