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περιπόλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπόλιον περιπόλιου

Structure: περιπολι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a station for, a guard-house

Declension

Second 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

  • ὡσ δὲ ἤγγισεν Ἀζώτου, ἔδειξαν αὐτῷ τὸ ἱερὸν Δαγὼν ἐμπεπυρισμένον καὶ Ἄζωτον καὶ τὰ περιπόλια αὐτῆσ καθῃρημένα καὶ τὰ σώματα ἐρριμμένα καὶ τοὺσ ἐμπεπυρισμένουσ, οὓσ ἐνεπύρισεν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. ἐποίησαν γὰρ θημωνίασ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:4)
  • καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν εἰσ Γάζαν, καὶ ἀπέκλεισαν οἱ ἀπὸ Γάζησ, καὶ περιεκάθισε περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ ἐνεπύρισε τὰ περιπόλια αὐτῆσ πυρὶ καὶ ἐσκύλευσεν αὐτά. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:61)
  • καὶ περιπόλια συχνὰ ἐν ταύτῃ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 20:4)
  • τῆσ δὲ Κυρήνησ ἐστὶ περιπόλια ἥ τε Ἀπολλωνία καὶ ἡ Βάρκη καὶ ἡ Ταύχειρα καὶ Βερενίκη καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πολίχνια τὰ πλησίον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 41:11)

Synonyms

  1. a station for

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

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