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περικλείω , Ion. περι-κληΐω , old Att. περι-κλήω , (κλείω (A), κλείς)
A.shut in all round, enclose, “ἐκ τοῦ περικληΐοντος ὄρεος” Hdt.3.117, cf. 7.129,198 ; “ὅπως αἱ νῆες περικλῄσειαν” Th.2.90: abs., “περικλειούσης θαλάττης” Ph.2.544:—Med., περικλῄσασθαι τὰς ναῦς τῶν ἐναντίων get them surrounded, Th.7.52:—Pass., “ὑπὸ πλήθους περικλῃόμενοι” Id.2.100.
II. metaph., in Pass., to be confined, reduced, “εἰς τοὺς ἐσχάτους κινδύνους” D.S.16.35 ; “εἰς ἀνενεργησίαν” S.E.M.11.162, cf. POxy.1666.12 (iii A.D.):— later in Act., limit, “εἰς τρία τὴν πραγματείαν” Steph.in Hp.1.179; ἐπεὶ δέ με ὁ χρόνος περιέκλειε τὸ τέλος ἐπάγων Vett. Val.354.1.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.117
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.129
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.90
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.52
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.100
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