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περικείρω , aor. inf. -
A.“κεῖραι” Philostr.Ep.61 : pf. -“κέκαρκα” Luc.Symp. 32:—shear or clip all round τὴν κόμην κακῶς π. Hdt.3.154 ; π. τινά clip him close, Philostr. l. c. :—Med., τρίχας περικείρεσθαι clip one's hair, Hdt.4.71 :—Pass., “π. κατὰ πρόσωπον” LXX Je.32.9（25.23); “τοὺς πλοκάμους περικειρόμενος” Luc. Tim.4 ; Περικειρομένη, title of play by Menander.
II. metaph., shear of its walls, “τὴν ἀκρόπολιν” Ael.VH 7.8.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.154
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.71
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 25.23
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 32.9
    • Lucian, Symposium, 32
    • Lucian, Timon, 4
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 7.8
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