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περικαθ-ίζω ,
A.cause to sit around or over, Hp.Mul.1.51.
2. π. στρατὸν τῇ πόλει invest a city, J.AJ8.14.1, cf. 13.5.5.
II. intr., sit round, “τῇ πυρᾷ” Max.Tyr.27.6, cf. Ach.Tat.3.5, Orib.Eup.4.113.4 : but usu. besiege, φρούριον Wilcken Chr.11 B 10 (ii B.C.); τὸ τεῖχος v.l. in D.S.20.103; “π. κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν” App.Hisp.53 ; περὶ or ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν, LXX 1 Ma.11.61, 4 Ki.6.24 : abs., J.AJ12.8.1, al.
III. Med., invest, περικαθεζόμενοι (aor. part.) “τὸ τεῖχος” D.59.102 ; “τὴν πόλιν περικαθισάμενος” Memn.45.1 : intr. in pass. form, περικαθεσθέντες having sat down round about, Luc.VH1.23, S.E.P.3.232 : pres.inf.περικαθέζεσθαι, = obsidere, Gloss.
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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