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περίβλεπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίβλεπτος περίβλεπτον

Structure: περιβλεπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. looked at from all sides, admired of all observers

Examples

  • ὥστε τί ἄν σοι τὸ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἔτι λέγοιμι, ὅσασ μὲν χρείασ παρέχεται ὁ χρυσόσ, ὡσ δὲ οἷσ ἂν παρῇ, καλούσ τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ σοφοὺσ καὶ ἰσχυροὺσ ἀπεργάζεται τιμὴν καὶ δόξαν προσάπτων, καὶ ἐξ ἀφανῶν καὶ ἀδόξων ἐνίοτε περιβλέπτουσ καὶ ἀοιδίμουσ ἐν βραχεῖ τίθησι; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 13:6)
  • ἡ Κύπροσ ἔχει πελείασ διαφόρουσ, ἡ δ’ ἐν Σάμῳ Ἥρα τὸ χρυσοῦν, φασίν, ὀρνίθων γένοσ, τοὺσ καλλιμόρφουσ καὶ περιβλέπτουσ ταὧσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 70 4:2)

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

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