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περιορ-άω , impf. περιεώρων, Ion.
A.“περιώρων” Hdt.3.118: pf. “περιεόρα_κα” D.18.64 (περιωρακυῖα cod. S), etc.: fut. “περιόψομαι” Ar.Nu.124, etc.: aor. 2 περιεῖδον (v. infr.):—look round upon, Arist.Mete.345b8:—Pass., ib.a28.
2. abs., take a look round, Thphr.Char.25.3.
II. look over, overlook, i.e. look on without regarding, allow, suffer:
1. mostly c. part., “ἢν τούτους περιίδης διαρπάσαντας” Hdt.1.89 ; “μὴ περιιδεῖν τὴν ἡγεμονίην αὖτις ἐς Μήδους περιελθοῦσαν” Id.3.65, cf. 2.110, 4.118, Ar.Ach.167, Ra.509, Antipho 3.1.2, Th.1.24 ; “ταῦτα περιιδεῖν γιγνόμενα” D.18.63, cf. 21.115 (but with Art., εἰ ὑμᾶς τοὺς ἐναντιουμένους περιίδοιμεν if we should leave you who are opposing us alone, Th.4.87): with gen. abs., “σφετεριζομένων Θηβαίων τὴν Εὔβοιαν οὐ περιείδετε” D.18.99: rarely without part., οὐ περιόψεται μ᾽ ἄνιππον [ὄντα] Ar.Nu.124 ; μηδέν᾽ ἐν συμφορᾷ (sc. ὄντα） τῶν πολιτῶν π. D.19.230 : simply c. acc. pers., disregard a suppliant, Men.Per.6, PMagd.6.11 (iii B. C.), etc.
2. c. inf., “περιιδόντες τοὺς Πέρσας ἐσελθεῖν” Hdt.1.191; “τοὺς προπόλους . . οὐ περιορᾶν παριέναι” Id.2.63, cf. 1.24, Th.1.35, etc.; “ἀποθανεῖν” Porph. Abst.3.14: with inf. omitted, οὐκ ἄν με περιεῖδες [ποιέειν] Hdt.3.155; ὁ πυλουρὸς καὶ ὁ ἀγγελιηφόρος οὐ περιώρων [αὐτὸν ἐσιέναι] ib.118, cf. Th.1.39, etc.; “περιιδεῖν τινα ἐπὶ πράγματι” Hyp.Eux.38 ; “ἐάν τ᾽ οὖν δοῦλον ἐάν τ᾽ οὖν καὶ ἐλεύθερον περιορᾷ” Pl.Lg.934d ; “π. τὴν ὕβριν τινός” X.HG2.1.9: rarely c.gen., “π.τῶν ἄλλων” Plu.2.764d codd.; “τοῦ πλείονος βίου” Polem.Cyn.20.
III. watch closely, observe, “περιορώμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν Αακεδαιμονίων” Th.5.31.
2. wait for, “τὸ μέλλον περιιδεῖν” Id.4.71 ; “π. εἴ τινες βοηθήσουσιν” Isoc.9.30.
IV. kcep watch for or on behalf of, “θεοῦ” J.AJ4.2.2.
V. Med., watch the turn of events, Th.6.93,103,7.33 ; “π. ὁποτέρων ἡ νίκη ἔσται” Id.4.73.
2. c. gen., look round after, watch over, τῆς Μένδης περιορώμενος ib.124.
3. consider anxiously, “τοὺς πολεμικοὺς κινδύνους” Id.2.43.
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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