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περιήκω ,
A.to have come round to one, εἰς τὸν φονέα ἡ ἀρχὴ π. X.Cyr. 4.6.6, cf. Arr.An.4.13.4: metaph., [κεφαλαὶ] εἰς κρανία π. are turned into . . , Philostr.Im.2.19 : c. acc., τὰ σὲ περιήκοντα that which has fallen to thy lot, Hdt.7.16.ά; τοῦτον τὸν ἄνδρα φαμὲν περιήκειν τὰ πρῶτα we say that the greatest luck came round to, befel, this man, Id.6.86.“ά; ἔμελλε . . δίκη περιήξειν καὶ Φιλοποίμενα” Paus.8.51.5.
2. of Time, to have come round, “καιρῷ περιήκοντι” Plu.Ages.35; “ἔτει δεκάτῳ περιήκοντι” Aristid.Or.50(26).1, cf. Parth.30.2.
3. surround, “πέτραν [τὸν ὄχθον] περιήκουσαν” Philostr.VA3.13; “κύκλῳ περὶ τὸ σπήλαιον π. ἄμπελος” D.Chr.2.41.
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 (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.86
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.16
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.51.5
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.6.6
    • Plutarch, Agesilaus, 35
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 4.13.4
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 2.41
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.13
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