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περιβολ-ή , ἡ,
A.covering, garment, Pl.Plt.280b; dress, Phld.Vit.p.36 J., Arr.Epict.3.1.1, Luc.Herm.19 ; “π. ἱματίων” LXX Si.11.4 ; turn of a bandage, Hp.Fract.14 (pl.) : in various senses acc. to context, χειρῶν περιβολαί embraces, E.IT903 (περιβολαί alone, X.Cyn.7.3, Plu.Rom.8); περιβολαὶ χθονός, i.e. the grave, E.Tr.389; ἐς σκοτεινὰς π. μεθῶ ξίφος scabbard, Id.Ph.276 ; ἄτοιχοι π. σκηνωμάτων tents, Id.Ion 1133 ; π. σφραγις μάτων the sealed coverings, Id.Hipp. 864; π. τοῖς σώμασι, of clothes and houses, Diog.Oen.10 ; σαρκῶν π. putting on of flesh, Aret.SD2.6 : abs., of walls round a town, “ἑπτάπυργοι π.” E.Ph.1078 ; αἱ ἔκτοσθεν π. Luc.Anach.20 ; ἐνιαυσία π. χλαμύδος annual investiture, Phld.Vit.p.27 J.
2. circumnavigation, “περιβολαὶ τῆς Πελοποννήσου” Luc.Ner.1.
II. space enclosed, compass, οἰκίης μεγάλης π. a house of large compass, Hdt.4.79 ; precinct, Jul.Or.7.239c.
b. extent, degree, “π. νοσήματος” Hp.Epid.1.9.
2. circumference, circuit, “χωρίου . . γωνιώδη π. ἔχοντος” Th.8.104 ; “μείζω τὴν π. ποιεῖσθαι” X.Cyr.6.3.30; “κύκλον τινὰ καὶ π. ἕχουσα ὁδός” Plu.Luc. 21.
III. metaph.,
1. compassing, endeavouring after, τῆς ἀρχῆς π. X.HG7.1.40, cf. Afric.Cest.p.18V.
2. ἡ π. παντὸς τοῦ λόγου the compass of the whole matter, scope, Isoc.5.16, cf. 12.244, J.AJ Prooem.2 ; “ἡ καθόλου π. τῶν πραγμάτων” Plb.16.20.9.
3. Rhet., expansion, amplification, Hermog.Inv.1.5,al.; “ἡ π. τῶν λόγων” Philostr. VS1.6; σοφιστικὴ π. ib.1.19.1 ; prolixity, Porph.Plot.21, Longin. ap. eund.20.
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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