Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, περιρρέω

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I. c. acc., flow round, “τὸν δ᾽ αἷμα περίρρεε” Od.9.388 ; “νῆδον π. ὁ Νεῖλος” Hdt.2.29, cf. 127 ; “νήσους, ἃς περιρρεῖν τὸν ἀέρα” Pl.Phd. 111a ; κύκλῳ . . τὸν τόπον περιρρεῦσαι τὸ πῦρ Lycurg.l.c. codd.; of persons, “ἅπαντες π. ἡμᾶς κύκλῳ” Pl.Chrm. 155d :—Pass., to be surrounded by water, X.An.1.5.4, Arist.Mu.393a11, al.

II. abs., flow round, “Στρυμόνος ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα περιρρέοντος” Th.4.102, cf. X.HG4.1.16 (v.l.), Arist.Cael. l.c.

2. fall away, “περιερρυηκυίας τῆς γῆς” Pl.Criti.l. c. ; waste away, “πῆχυς ὅλος περιερρύη” Hp.Epid.3.4, cf. LXX 4 Ma.9.20 ; fall off, of flowers, Thphr.HP4.8.9.

3. slip from off a thing, ἡ ἀσπὶς περιερρύη ἐς τὴν θάλασσαν slipped off his arm into the sea, Th.4.12 ; [“αἱ πέδαι] αὐτῷ αὐτόμαται π.” X.An.4.3.8 ; [αἱ πέδαι] π. Plu.2.304b ; οἱ στέφανοι π. Luc.VH2.11 : c. gen., ἵππου π. slip off it, Plu.Art. 15, cf. Id.2.970d ; “τροχοὶ π. τῶν ἁρμάτων” Parth.6.4.

4. overflow on all sides, σοὶ περιρρείτω βίος let thy means of living abound, S.El.362 ; of excessive wealth, Diog.Oen.60 ; οὐδενὸς περιρρέοντος being in excess, Plu.Per.16 :—Pass., to be all running or dripping, ἱδρῶτι with sweat, Id.Aem.25 ; “δάκρυσι” Suid. s.v. ἄναυδος : freq. metaph., abound, “περιρρεομένη ἀφθονία ἀγαθῶν” Ph.2.455 ; of persons, c. dat., “περιρρεόμενος ταῖς ἐκτὸς οὐσίαις” Id.1.592, cf. 2.445 ; περιρρέονται μαθηταῖς have a crowd of pupils about them, Lib.Or.64.90.

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 (17):
- Herodotus, Histories, 2.29
- Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 96
- Plato, Phaedo, 111a
- Plato, Charmides, 155d
- Plato, Critias, 111b
- Sophocles, Electra, 362
- Thucydides, Histories, 4.12
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.5.4
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.3.8
- Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.1.16
- Homer, Odyssey, 9.388
- Thucydides, Histories, 4.102
- Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.4
- Plutarch, Artaxerxes, 15
- Plutarch, Pericles, 16
- Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 25
- Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 6.4

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