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περιστίζω ,
A.prick or dot all round, περιέστιζε [τοῖσι μαζοῖσι] τὸ τεῖχος she stuck the wall all round with the breasts, Hdt.4.202 ; περιστίξαντες (v.l. περιστήσαντες, πέριξ στήσαντες Dobree) κατὰ τὰ ἀγγήϊα τοὺς τυφλούς having set them at equal distances round . . , ib.2 (expld. by Hsch. ἀπὸ τοῦ στίχειν).
II. Gramm., mark with dots, “τὸ λ” Gal. 16.800 ; “τὸ ι καὶ τὸ υ” EM169.37, cf. 462.39 (Pass.): pf. part. Pass. περιεστιγμένος, η, ον, marked with dots, διπλῆ Sch.Il.p.xliii Dind., etc. ; ὀβελός, etc., D.L.3.66.
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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