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περι-σπάω , fut.
A.“-σπάσω” D.S.20.3, A.D.Pron.87.15 :—draw off from around, strip off, Isoc.Ep.9.10 ; τὸ χλαμύδιον αὑτοῦ π. D.S.19.9, etc.:—Med., strip oneself of, “τὴν τιάραν” X.Cyr.3.1.13 (so also in Act., “π. τὴν πορφύραν” Plu. Aem.23).
2. strip bare, περισπάσας ξίφος (Pierson χερὶ σπάσας) E. IT296.
II. wheel about, of a general, Plb.1.76.5 ; intr. of the troops, Id.3.116.5 ; esp. wheel twice through a right angle, Ascl. Tact.12.6,al. ; of a horse's bit, οὐ πάνυ π. not pulling it violently round, Luc.Merc.Cond.21.
III. draw off or away, divert, εἰς τοὐναντίον [τὴν πολιτείαν] Arist.Pol.1307a24 ; “τροφὴν εἰς τὸ περικάρπιον” Thphr.CP1.16.2 ; “π. τοὺς Ῥωμαίους” Plb.9.22.5 ; “τὸν πόλεμον” Id.1.26.1 ; π. τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ draw it away, Plu.Cic.45 ; “ἀπὸ τῆς πατρίδος π. τοὺς βαρβάρους” D.S.20.3 ; “τὸν ἐντὸς . . θόρυβον ἐπὶ τοὺς ἔξω πολέμους” D.H.6.23 ; “π. περὶ τὰς ἔξω στρατείας τὸν δῆμον” Id.9.43 : —Pass., “π. ὑπό τινων” PStrassb.112.13 (ii B. C.) ; “πάντῃ τὰς ὄψεις περισπώμενος” Luc. DDeor.30.11 ; ἕως τοῦ ἔξω τόπου π. to be drawn away and expanded, opp. συστέλλεσθαι, Arist.Pr.863a5.
b. detach, “Συρίαν τινός” App. Syr.1, cf. Hann.56 ; “τινὰς αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀκροατῶν” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.79 M.
2. disturb, vex, Men.Epit.504, LXX Ec.5.19 :—Pass., “ὑπὸ τῶν τελωνῶν” PSI3.384.5 (ii B. C.).
3. divert, distract, Plu.2.96b, 16oc ; “π. [τὴν διάνοιαν] ἀπό τινος” Metrod.Herc.831.4, cf. Phld.Rh.2.53 S., al., Onos.42.6 :—Pass., to be distracted or engaged, “π. ταῖς διανοίαις” Plb. 15.3.4 ; “ὑπὸ βιωτικῆς χρείας” D.S.2.29, cf. Phld.Po.Herc.994.24, al.; “μηδ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἑνὸς περισπωμένη ἡ πόλις” IG22.1304.7 ; “περί τινος” LXX Si.41.2 ; “περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν” Ev.Luc.10.40 : abs., Plb.4.10.3.
4. steal, “ἀργυροῦν ἢ χρυσοῦν ἀνάθημα” Philostr.Gym.45 :—Pass., ἅπαντα περιέσπασμαι I have been robbed of all, Men.Epit.143.
5. Pass., c. inf., to be compelled to do a thing, περιησπάσθην (sic) “ἀνενεγκεῖν” PUniv.Giss.19.4 (i A. D.).
IV. Gramm., pronounce a vowel or word with the circumflex, A.D.Pron.33.24, al., Plu.Thes.26, etc.; esp. on the last syllable, Ath.2.52f, etc.; “π. τὸν τόνον” A.D.Pron.87.15 ; “τῷ τόνῳ” Gal.16.495 ; περισπώμεναι [λέξεις] D.H.Comp.11 ; π. [προσῳδία] D.T.630.2, Ph.1.29 ; περισπώμενος [φθόγγος] ib.46.
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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