Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

περιαγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιαγής περιαγές

Structure: περιαγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: peria/gnumi

Sense

  1. broken in pieces
  2. quite round

Examples

  • ἐπιστρέφει γοῦν ἑαυτὸν καὶ περιάγει καὶ ἐμπομπεύει τῷ κάλλει· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 11:2)
  • ὅθεν ὀλισθηροὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ τῶν λόγων εἰσὶν ἐκ πάσησ προφάσεωσ οὐ γὰρ μόνον ὅπου τισ ἀλγεῖ, κεῖθι καὶ τὴν χεῖρ’ ἔχει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἡδόμενον ἕλκει τὴν φωνὴν ἐφ’ ἑαυτὸ καὶ περιάγει τὴν γλῶτταν ἐπερείδειν ἀεὶ τῇ μνήμῃ βουλόμενον. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 2:2)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἡδόμενον ἕλκει τὴν φωνὴν ἐφ’ ἑαυτὸ καὶ περιάγει τὴν γλῶτταν, ἐπερείδειν ἀεὶ τῇ μνήμῃ βουλόμενον. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐλέφαντασ περιάγει; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 97 1:9)
  • καὶ δῆτα θαυμάζω πῶσ οὐ λογίζει πρὸσ σεαυτόν, ὅτι ἔστιν Ἀρχεστράτῳ τῷ ποτὲ τὸν σὸν πατέρα κτησαμένῳ υἱὸσ ἐνθάδε, Ἀντίμαχοσ, πράττων οὐ κατ’ ἀξίαν, ὃσ οὐ δικάζεταί σοι, οὐδὲ δεινά φησι πάσχειν, εἰ σὺ μὲν χλανίδα φορεῖσ, καὶ τὴν μὲν λέλυσαι, τὴν δ’ ἐκδέδωκασ ἑταίραν, καὶ ταῦτα γυναῖκ’ ἔχων ποιεῖσ, καὶ τρεῖσ παῖδασ ἀκολούθουσ περιάγει, καὶ ζῇσ ἀσελγῶσ ὥστε καὶ τοὺσ ἀπαντῶντασ αἰσθάνεσθαι, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐκεῖνοσ πολλῶν ἐνδεήσ ἐστιν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 65:1)

Synonyms

  1. broken in pieces

  2. quite round

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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