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περιωθέω ,
A.push, shove about, “περιωθῶν καὶ ἐλαύνων τοὺς ἀνθρώπους” D.21.173.
2. push or force round, “π. εἴσω τὴν ἀναπνοήν” Pl.Ti.79c, cf. e, Arist.Resp.472b18 :—Pass., to be pushed away, “περιεώσμεθα ἐκ πάντων” Th.3.57 ; π. ἔν τινι lose one's place in a person's favour, ib. 67 ; “ἀσθενὲς ὂν π. ὑπὸ τοῦ βιαιοτέρου” D.H.7.25 ; “εἰς τὴν φάραγγα -ωσθείς” App.BC1.45 : abs., to be rejected, defeated, Arist.Pol.1304a8 (v.l. περιωρισθείς), cf. 1306a32.
3. λόγων ἀρετῇ -ωθούμενος moved by . . , J.AJ 17.3.1.
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 (5):
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 173
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 17.3.1
    • Plato, Timaeus, 79c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.57
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.25
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