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περι-σύρω [υ],
A.drag about, “ἄνω καὶ κάτω” Luc.Merc.Cond.30 (Pass.) ; περισυ^ρέντα τὴν πόλιν dragged round the city, J.BJ2.12.7.
2. metaph., satirize, ridicule, Eust.1816.46 (Act. and Pass.).
II. tear off, pick off, “τὸ χλωρόν” LXX Ge.30.37.
2. tear away, take by violence from, τὴν λείαν τινῶν -συ^ρεῖν (fut. inf.) Plb.3.93.1, cf. 4.19.4 :—Med., carry off, “λείαν περιεσύραντο” Hyp. Fr.264, cf. App.Hisp.65 : metaph., destroy, Ph.1.178 : —περισύρεται is f.l. for παρασύρεται in D.P.864.
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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