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περίοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίοικος περίοικον

Structure: περιοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dwelling round, neighbours
  2. the free inhabitants

Examples

  • ἔλαβον δὲ καὶ πεντηκόντορον παρὰ τῶν Τραπεζουντίων, ᾗ ἐπέστησαν Δέξιππον Λάκωνα περίοικον. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 19:1)
  • Σύλλασ δ’ ἦγεν Ἰταλιώτασ, καὶ Ἑλλήνων ἢ Μακεδόνων ὅσοι ἄρτι πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ Ἀρχελάου μετετίθεντο, ἢ εἴ τι ἄλλο περίοικον, οὐδ’ ἐσ τριτημόριον τὰ πάντα τῶν πολεμίων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling round

  2. the free inhabitants

Related

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

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