A.whirl round, of one preparing to throw, “ἔρριψεν . . χειρὶ περιστρέψας” Il.19.131 ; “τόν ῥα περιστρέψας ἧκε” Od.8.189 ; turn round, “π. τὸν τράχηλον εἰς τοὐπίσω” Arist.HA504a16 ; “θέαμα πρὸς αὐγήν” Gal.UP17.1 ; π. ἵππον wheel it round, Plu.Marc.6 ; “ὁ ἥλιος κύκλον ἄγει καὶ π. περὶ τὴν σελήνην” Id.2.931a :—Pass., to be turned or turn round, spin round, Pl. Cra.411b ; περιστρεφόμενος . . φαμὰ ἐπεσκοπεῖτο turning round, Id.Ly. 207a ; of the heavens, complete a rotation, Arist.Cael.273a2 : metaph., π. εἰς τἀληθῆ turn towards them, Pl.R.519b ; κινδυνεύει εἰς τοὺς πολιτικοὺς περιεστράφθαι τὸ ῥῆμα to be fixed on . . , Id.Plt.303c ; οὐ -στραφήσεται κλῆρος shall not be removed from tribe to tribe, LXXNu.36.9.
περι-στρέφω ,
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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