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περίπλοος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: periploos

Principal Part: περίπλοος

Etym.: πλέω

Sense

  1. a sailing round
  2. the account of a coasting voyage

Examples

  • κατὰ δὲ Αἴγυπτον ἐσέχων ἐκ τῆς μεγάλης θαλάσσης κόλπος δῆλον ποιέει ὅτι εἵνεκά γε τοῦ σύρροον εἶναι τὴν ἔξω θάλασσαν περίπλοος ἂν ἦν ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος ἐς τὸν κόλπον τοῦτον ἐσέχοντα ὡς ἐπ᾿ Αἴγυπτον. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 43 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sailing round

  2. the account of a coasting voyage

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

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