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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

  • προήχθη γὰρ αὐτήν τε φιλοσοφίαν ἐπαινέσαι καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ ταύτησ ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τῶν δημοσίᾳ νομιζομένων ἀγαθῶν καταγελάσαι, πλούτου καὶ δόξησ καὶ βασιλείασ καὶ τιμῆσ, ἔτι τε χρυσοῦ καὶ πορφύρασ, τῶν πάνυ περιβλέπτων τοῖσ πολλοῖσ, τέωσ δὲ κἀμοὶ δοκούντων. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 4:1)

Related

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

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