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περιβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιβολή

Structure: περιβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: periba/llw

Sense

  1. anything which is thrown round, a covering, embraces, walls round
  2. a space enclosed, compass, compass
  3. a circumference, circuit, a circuit
  4. a compassing, endeavouring after
  5. the whole compass, long and short

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῦτο δὴ τοίνυν κατανοήσαντεσ ἐπιμελούμεθα μέν, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, καὶ τοῦ σώματοσ τῆσ πόλεωσ, κατακοσμοῦντεσ αὐτὸ ὡσ κάλλιστον ἡμῖν εἰή, ἔνδοθὲν τε οἰκοδομήμασιν κατεσκευασμένον καὶ ταῖσ ἔκτοσθεν ταύταισ περιβολαῖσ εἰσ τὸ ἀσφαλέστατον πεφραγμένον. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 20:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τέλοσ εἶχεν ἡ στρατεία τῷ Κάτωνι, προεπέμφθη, οὐκ εὐχαῖσ, ὃ κοινόν ἐστιν, οὐδ’ ἐπαίνοισ, ἀλλὰ δάκρυσι καὶ περιβολαῖσ ἀπλήστοισ, ὑποτιθέντων τὰ ἱμάτια τοῖσ ποσὶν ᾗ βαδίζοι καὶ καταφιλούντων τὰσ χεῖρασ, ἃ τῶν αὐτοκρατόρων ὀλίγοισ μόλισ ἐποίουν οἱ τότε Ῥωμαῖοι. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 12 1:1)
  • ἀφικόμενοσ οὖν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ καὶ θεασάμενοσ ὅσον οὔπω τὸν Ῥέμον ἐν περιβολαῖσ καὶ φιλοφροσύναισ τοῦ Νομήτοροσ, τήν τε πίστιν ἰσχυρὰν ἐποίησε τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ, καὶ παρεκελεύσατο τῶν πραγμάτων ὀξέωσ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι, καὶ συνῆν αὐτοῖσ ἤδη καὶ συνέπραττεν. (Plutarch, chapter 8 5:1)
  • ἧκον δὲ καὶ οἱ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν συνελθόντεσ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ἐκλιπόντεσ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἔχοντεσ ὑπὸ ταῖσ περιβολαῖσ ξίφη κεκρυμμένα, στῖφοσ καρτερόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 83 4:3)
  • ἔξωθεν δὲ πάντων περιέστησε Ῥωμαίουσ, ἐν οἷσ ἦσαν οἱ γενναιότατοι, ξίφη κρύπτοντασ ὑπὸ ταῖσ περιβολαῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 27 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. anything which is thrown round

  2. a space enclosed

  3. a circumference

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

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