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περιπολ-έω ,
A.go round or about, wander about, S.OT1254; “καθ; Ἑλλάδα” E.IT84,1455 ; “μετά τινος” Pl.Phdr.252c ; “ἡ στρατιὰ ἡ μετὰ βασιλέως περιπολοῦσα” Isoc.4.145 ; of the sun or stars, Pl.Ti.41a, Arist.Fr.10, Epicur.Ep.2p.52U.: aor. Pass. in med. sense, D.L.8.4.
II. c. acc. loci, traverse, “οὐρανόν” Pl.Phdr.246b ; “τόνδε τὸν τόπον” Id.Tht.176a ; π. στρατόν prowl about it, E.Rh.773 ; ἔρως ὁ τὰς πόλεις π. Philostr.Ep.5, etc.
2. at Athens, οἱ ταχθέντες . . περιπιπολεῖν τὴν χώραν to patrol the country, X.Vect.4.52 ; “οἱ ἔφηβοι . . π. τὴν χώραν” Arist.Ath.42.4, cf. IG12.99.22 (prob.).
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 (12):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 42.4
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1455
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 84
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 773
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 145
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 176a
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 246b
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 252c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 41a
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1254
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 4.52
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 8.4
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