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περίπλους

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίπλους περίπλουν

Structure: περιπλο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/w

Sense

  1. sailing round
  2. that may be sailed round

Examples

  • ἐσπλεύσαντι δὲ ἐσ τὸν Πόντον, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ τὴν Ἀσίαν ἔχοντι καὶ περιπλέοντι τὸ ἐχόμενον μέροσ τοῦ Βιθυνῶν ἔθνουσ τὸ πρὸσ τὸν Πόντον κείμενον, ὁ περίπλουσ ὧδε ἔχει. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 12 3:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ λίμνησ τῆσ Μαιώτιδοσ περίπλουσ ἐν κύκλῳ λέγεται σταδίων ἀμφὶ τοὺσ ἐνακισχιλίουσ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 4:2)
  • ταῦτα καὶ πρότερον ἴσμεν λεγόμενα, καὶ ὅσον τὸ μέγεθοσ καὶ ὅσοσ αὐτῆσ ὁ περίπλουσ, καὶ ὅμωσ ἐπέμψαμεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:10)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ τὰ σκάφη Πομπηίῳ μὲν βραχύτερα καὶ κοῦφα καὶ ὀξέα ἐσ τὰσ ἐφορμήσεισ τε καὶ περίπλουσ, καίσαρι δὲ μείζω καὶ βαρύτερα καὶ παρ’ αὐτὸ καὶ βραδύτερα, βιαιότερα δὲ ὅμωσ ἐμπεσεῖν καὶ τρωθῆναι δυσπαθέστερα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 10:5)
  • Ὠκεανοῦ περίπλουσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. z'. DHMOKRITOS 17:4)

Synonyms

  1. sailing round

  2. that may be sailed round

Related

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

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