A.very beautiful, in Hom. mostly of things, φόρμιγξ, κίθαρις, Il.1.603, Od.1.153; ἀγροί, αὐλή, βωμός, δίφρος, δόμος, δῶρα, ἔργα, εὐνή, θρόνος, etc., 14.263, 1.425, Il.8.249, 4.486, 3.421, Od.8.420, 2.117, 10.347, 22.438, al.; of women only Il.5.389, 16.85, Od.11.281 ; of men first in h.Merc.323, 397, 504 ; of a man's eyes, Od.13.401,433 ; of a statue, Orac. ap. Hdt.5.60 ; “Κύπρον, περικαλλέα νῆσον” Thgn.1277, cf. Hdt.7.5 ; “ἄνθη -έστατα” Hellanic.55 J.: also in later Prose, Arist.Fr.11, Mu.397a4 (Sup.), Ph.2.269, J.BJ6.1.1, D.C. 37.17 (Sup.), etc. : but rare in Att., Hermipp.Hist.6 (Comp.) ; “π. Θεσμοφόρω” Ar.Th.282 : irreg. Sup. περικάλλιστος v.l. in Alciphr.3.59. Adv. -“καλλῶς” Cat.Cod.Astr.2.171, Longin.Rh.p.186 H., Eust. 836.41.
περικαλλής , ές, ῾κάλλος)
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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