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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

  • οὓσ δ’ ἕλοι δόρυ, νεκροί γ’ ἐσ οἴκουσ φερόμενοι φίλων ὕπο ἐν γῇ πατρῴᾳ περιβολὰσ εἶχον χθονόσ, χερσὶν περισταλέντεσ ὧν ἐχρῆν ὕπο· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:2)
  • τὸ μὲν φίλουσ ἐλθόντασ εἰσ ὄψιν φίλων, Ὀρέστα, χειρῶν περιβολὰσ εἰκὸσ λαβεῖν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 1:2)
  • οὐ ῥίψεθ’ Αἵδου τάσδε περιβολὰσ κόμησ καὶ φῶσ ἀναβλέψεσθε, τοῦ κάτω σκότου φίλασ ἀμοιβὰσ ὄμμασιν δεδορκότεσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 4:1)
  • ὁ δὲ νεανίασ σεμνῶσ ἀτοίχουσ περιβολὰσ σκηνωμάτων ὀρθοστάταισ ἱδρύεθ’, ἡλίου βολὰσ καλῶσ φυλάξασ, οὔτε πρὸσ μέσασ φλογὸσ ἀκτῖνασ, οὔτ’ αὖ πρὸσ τελευτώσασ βίον, πλέθρου σταθμήσασ μῆκοσ εἰσ εὐγωνίαν, μέτρημ’ ἔχουσαν τοὐν μέσῳ γε μυρίων ποδῶν ἀριθμόν, ὡσ λέγουσιν οἱ σοφοί, ὡσ πάντα Δελφῶν λαὸν ἐσ θοίνην καλῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:2)
  • φέρ’ ἐσ σκοτεινὰσ περιβολὰσ μεθῶ ξίφοσ καὶ τάσδ’ ἔρωμαι, τίνεσ ἐφεστᾶσιν δόμοισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode11)

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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