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περιώσιος , ον,
A.immense, countless, “χρήματα” Sol.24.7 ; μήδεα Lyr.Adesp. in TGFp.xx ; “φῦλα” A.R.2.394 ; “ἔργον” AP9.197 (Marin.); ὀργιοφάντης ib.688 ; “θεάτρου κύκλος” Epigr.Gr.1050 (Ephesus).
2. = περισσός, unusual, rare, περιώσια εἰδώς, of Pythagoras, Emp.129.1 ; “ἄγρη” Opp.C.4.354.
II. Hom. only neut. as Adv. περιώσιον, beyond measure, Il.4.359, Od.16.203 : pl., “περιώσια” h.Pan.41.
2. c. gen., περιώσιον ἄλλων far beyond the rest, h.Cer.362, Pi.I.5(4).3, A.R.1.466.—Regul. Adv. -ίως only in Hsch. ; cf. περώσιος.
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 (6):
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.359
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.203
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 19 to Pan, 41
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 362
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.466
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.394
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