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περίπλοος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίπλοος

Etym.: ple/w

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 ἐπ̓ 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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