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περιπείρω ,
A.put on a spit, “π. τι περὶ λόγχην” Plu.Galb.27 : metaph., pierce, ἑαυτοὺς π. ὀδύναις IEp.Ti.6.10 :—Pass., to be spitted or pierced, “ξίφεσι καὶ λόγχαις” D.S.16.80 ; “Χάρακι” Id.19.84; “σκόλοπι” Ael.NA7.48; “ὀβελοῖς” Luc.Gall. 2 : metaph., to become entangled, “δυσαναπορεύτοις βαράθροις περιπαρέντες” Ph.1.672 ; “δίκτυα, οἷς ἀνάγκη περιπείρεσθαι” Id.2.411, cf. Vett.Val.250.11.
II. run into, “τοὺς ὀδόντας τῇ δειρῇ” Lib. Descr.12.2 (Pass.):—Pass., “ἄγκιστρα περιπαρέντα τοῖς ἰχθύσι” Ael.NA 15.10.
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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