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περι-πτύσσω ,
A.enfold, enshroud, “τινὰ τύμβῳ” S.Ant.886 ; “πέπλοι περιπτύσσοντες δέμας” E.Hec.735 ; π. γόνυ, δέμας, clasp, embrace it, Id.IA992, Med.1206 (v.l. χέρας）“; ὥς σε περιπτύξω” Bion 1.44 ; “π. ταῖς χερσί” Plb.13.7.8, etc.; ὀλοῇσι π. γενύεσσι, of a dragon, A.R.4.155 :—Pass., Aristaenet. 1.1.
2. as military term, outflank, X.An.1.10.9 :—Pass., Id.Cyr. 7.1.26.
3. Med., embrace, Jul.Ep.193.
II. fold round, π. χέρας fold the arms round another, E.Alc.350, Andr.417 :—Med. and Pass., fold oneself round, coil round, Pl.Smp.196a ; “ἡ γαστὴρ -πτύσσεται τῇ τροφῇ” Gal.6.303 : c. acc., “τήνδε τὴν μερίδα τῆς βασιλείας δύο . . ἔθνη περιπτύσσεται” Lib.Or.59.89.
2. apply, “τι τόπῳ” Philum.Ven.7.6.
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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