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περίπλοος , ον, contr. περιπλόκ-πλους , ουν,
A.sailing round, ἡγητὴρ π. AP9.559 (Crin.).
II. Pass., that may be sailed round, “π. ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ” Th. 2.97; “κολωνός” Philostr.Im.2.17.
III. τὸν Ἰσθμὸν περίπλουν ἐργαζόμενος making it a passage by water, Id.VA4.24.
IV. enfolding, σὺν λοβοῖς πολλάκις κοίλῃ περιπλόοις enfolding the vena cava, Hp.Ep. 23.
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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