I. cutting all round, mutilation, e.g. of the Hermae at Athens, Th.6.28, And.1.15, Plu.Alc.18, etc.; lopping of a tree, Thphr.CP5.4.7; docking of hair, Plu.2.42b; trepanning, Id.Cat.Ma. 9.
3. mason's work, PTeb.406.19 (iii A. D.).
II. outline, general form of a person or thing, Plb.6.53.6 ; λιτὸς κατὰ τὴν π. in externals, Id.10.22.5 ; “π. καὶ χορηγία” Id.31.26.7, cf. Fr.199, al.; π. “κόσμου καὶ θεραπαινίδων” D.S.31.27, cf. 32a.
2. in Metric, passage, section, “κατὰ π. ἀνομοιομερῆ” Heph. Poeëm.4.5, cf. Sch.Heph.p.170C., Sch.Ar.Pl.619.