A.stretch all round or over, π. τούτοισι (sc. “τοῖσι νομεῦσἰ διφθέρας” Hdt.1.194 ; ὠμοβοέην π. Id.4.65 ; περὶ ταῦτα (sc. τὰ ξύλἀ πίλους . . π. ib.73; “ἐπὶ τράπεζαν ὕδατος κύαθον” Arist.Mete.355b28 :— Pass., δέρμα περιτεταμένον tight-stretched, Hp.Prog.2, cf. Arist.HA 548b32, al.; νοτίδος περὶ ἀέρα περιταθείσης being spread round . . , Pl. Ti.66b, cf. Arist.Mete.354b24; ἀσπὶς δέρματι περιτεταμένη covered with a skin, Id.Fr.498; περιτετάσθαι τῷ κελύφει fit the pod tight, Thphr. CP4.12.11; ἡ κοιλία περιτείνεται is distended, Arist.HA591b2; οἱ ὄνυχες περιτεταμένοι εἰσίν become aduncate, Hp.Loc.Hom.14.
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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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