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

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A.break off all round, “τὸν γήλοφον κύκλῳ” Pl.Criti.113d : freq. of clothes, rend and tear off, “τὸν χιτωνίσκον” D.19.197 ; “τὴν χλαμύδα” Plb. 15.33.4 : also c. acc. pers., strip, Parth. 15.3 :—Med., περιερρήξατο τοὺς πέπλους tore off her own garments, Plu.Ant.77, cf. Ph.2.44 : abs., J.AJ9.7.3, Arr.An.7.24.3, D.Chr.35.9 ; [“γυναῖκες], περιερρηγμέναι” Id.46.12 :—Pass., with aor. 2 -ερράγην, intr. pf. “περιέρρωγα, περιρρηγνυμένων φαρέων” A.Th.328 (lyr.); of the case or membrane that encloses pupa or shellfish, “περιρρήγνυται τὸ κέλυφος” Arist.HA551a23, cf. 552a6 ; περιερρωγέναι τὸ ὄστρακον ib. 601a13 (so in Act., ἡ σχάδων . . τὸν ὑμένα περιρρήξας (sic) ἐκπέταται ib. 554a30.—Med., τὰ ζῷα τὰ ἐκ τῶν σκωλήκων περιρρηγνύμενα ib.552a9); πέτρα περιρραγεῖσα ib.578b22 ; of dead flesh, break away, Hp.Fract. 26.

II. cause a stream to break or divide round a piece of land, [“Βούσιρις] τὸν Νεῖλον περὶ τὴν χώραν περιέρρηξε” Isoc.11.31 :—Pass., “τοῦ Δέλτα κατὰ τὸ ὀξὺ περιρρήγνυται ὁ Νεῖλος” Hdt.2.16, cf. Ael.NA7.24 ; βρονταὶ περιερρήγνυντο kept breaking round a place, Plu.Crass. 19.

III. break a thing round or on another, wreck, “τὸ σκαφίδιον πρὸς πέτραν” Luc.Merc.Cond.2, cf. Poll.1.114 ; “ἀλλήλοισι π. ἀέλλας” Q.S.8.61.

IV. ὄρος περιερρωγός broken all round, i.e. precipitous, Nic.Dam.1 J.

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 (16):
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 328
- Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 197
- Herodotus, Histories, 2.16
- Isocrates, Busiris, 31
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 9.7.3
- Plato, Critias, 113d
- Polybius, Histories, 15.33.4
- Hippocrates, De fracturis, 26
- Plutarch, Antonius, 77
- Plutarch, Crassus, 19
- Plutarch, Publicola, 6
- Lucian, De mercede, 2
- Arrian, Anabasis, 7.24.3
- Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 35.9
- Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 7.24
- Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 15.3

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