A.hover around, prob. for sq. in S.Fr.334 (anap.); revolve round, “ἄξονας οὓς περιεδίνευον τροχοί” D.S.18.27. -έω, whirl, wheel round, “κύκλῳ αὑτόν” Aeschin.3.167 ; “τὴν κεφαλήν” D.Chr.1.56 ; ὁ ἥλιος π. περὶ αὐτὸν τὸν πόλον Men.Rh.p.442S.; “τυφὼν π. τὴν ναῦν” Luc.VH1.9 ; set in motion all round, Alciphr.1.39 :—Med., “περιδινήσασθε ἀνελίγματα χαίτης” AP7.485 (Diosc.); also, take a stroll, “περιδινησόμεθα ἐν Λυκείῳ” Luc.Lex.2:—Pass., to be whirled round, Ph.1.145, Ti.Locr.97c, Iamb.Myst.5.20 ; spin round like a top, X.Smp.7.3, Luc. Syr.D.36, etc.—Cf. περιδονέω.
περιδι_ν-εύω ,
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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