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περικαμπ-ής , ές,
A.bent round, Aq.Is.40.4, Ho.6.8 ; διὰ π. τόπων by zigzag paths, Vett.Val.263.13. -της, tergiversator, Gloss. -τω, bend round, Hp.Art.18; π. τὸν τοῖχον make a return in the wall, IG22.1668.24 ; π. τὴν χεῖρα τοῖς βλεφάροις Ps.-Luc. Philopatr.19.
II. intr., turn round a corner or bend, Pl.Euthd. 291b : c. acc. loci, “π. [ὁ ἦχος] τοὺς ὄζους” Arist.Aud.802a35; “π. τὸν Ἄθω” Ael.VH1.15 : abs., bend or sweep round, “ἐπὶ τοὺς λιμένας” App. Pun.95.
2. go round so as to shun or escape from, “τὴν τῶν κυάμων χώραν” Hermipp.Hist.23 ; ὁμιλίας, prob. for παρέκαμπτε in D.S.5.59 ; “τὴν πόλιν” Plu.2.246b ; “κακοπαθίαν οὐδεμίαν” IG12(5).129.23 (Paros) ; “διήγησιν” Apollon.Cit.1 ; “ὀσμάς” Archig. ap. Gal.12.790, cf. PMed.in Arch.Pap.4.270 (iii A.D.) ; “φιλίας” Porph.VP59.
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 (4):
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 291b
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 18
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.59
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 1.15
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