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περιτροπ-έω , Ion. and Ep. form of περιτρέπω :
I. intr., περιτροπέων ἐνιαυτός a revolving year, Il.2.295.
II. trans., turn from all sides to a centre, round up, drive in, “πολλὰ [μῆλα] περιτροπέοντες ἐλαύνομεν” Od. 9.465 ; περιτροπέων φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων shepherding them about, h.Merc. 542. -ή, ἡ, turning round, revolution, “ἐτέων περιτροπάς” Semon.1.8, cf. Pl.Tht.209e ; “ὅταν περιτροπαὶ ἑκάστοις . . περιφορὰς συνάπτωσι” Id.R.546a ; π. ἔτους Wilcken Chr.27.32 (ii A. D.) : prov., ὑπέρου π., v. ὕπερος 1.
2. turning about, changing, ἐν περιτροπῇ by turns, one after another, Hdt.2.168,3.69 ; “ἐκ περιτροπῆς” D.H.5.2, Aristid.Or.43(1).24, BGU149.9(ii/iii A. D.), D.C.53.1 ; ἐκ τῆς π. Id.54.19.
3. overturning, “ὠθισμοὶ καὶ π. ἀλλήλων” Plu.2.639f.
b. Rhet., ἡ π. τοῦ λόγου turning an opponent's arguments against himself, S.E.P.2.128, al., cf. Dam.Pr.13.
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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