A.carrying round, of dishes at table : hence, meats carried round, course at dinner, X.Cyr.2.2.4, Heraclid.Tarent. ap. Ath. 3.12oc (pl.), cf. 7.275b.
II. (from Pass.) going round, circular or rotatory motion, revolution, of a wheel, E.Ba.1067 ; of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Ar.Nu.172, X.Mem.4.7.5, Pl.Phdr.247c, Lg.898c, Arist.Mete.341a2, Cael.291a35, Epicur.Nat.11.10,al.; αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν π. J.AJ1.1.1, cf. Pl.R.546a, Plt.271a,274e.
3. metaph., in pl., twists, circumvolutions, Eub.73.
4. ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖς in social intercourse, Plu.Per.5.
III. story or tier of a funeral pile, D.S.17.115.
IV. turntable (?), PTeb.12.17 (ii B.C.).