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περί-κλα^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.twisting round, “τῆς πόας” Plu.2.325b (pl.) ; σώματος ib.45d.
2. breaking round or on something, “π. τοῦ αἰθέρος” Id.Lys.12 ; “κάταγμα γιγνόμενον κατὰ περίκλασιν” Gal.18(2).436.
II. wheeling round of an army, Plb.10.23.6,11.23.2; “π. λαμβάνειν” Plu.Flam.8.
2. generally, change of direction, of winds, Thphr.Vent.28.
3. modification, “τοῦ κόσμου” Stoic.2.300 (pl.).
4. Gramm., κατὰ περίκλασιν with the circumflex accent, D.T.630.2.
III. of ground, brokenness, ruggedness, Plb.3.104.4 (pl.).
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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