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περίπολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίπολος περίπολον

Structure: περιπολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pole/w

Sense

  1. going the rounds, patrolling
  2. a watchman, patrol, a sort of patrol
  3. an attendant, follower

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ κἂν εἰσ τὴν Κρήτην ἀφίκῃ τῷ λόγῳ, πάμπολλα κἀκεῖθεν ἡ ὄρχησισ ἐρανίζεται, τὴν Εὐρώπην, τὴν Πασιφάην, τοὺσ ταύρουσ ἀμφοτέρουσ, τὸν λαβύρινθον, τὴν Ἀριάδνην, τὴν Φαίδραν, τὸν Ἀνδρόγεων, τὸν Δαίδαλον, τὸν Ἴκαρον, τὸν Γλαῦκον, τὴν Πολυΐδου μαντικήν, τὸν Τάλω, τὸν χαλκοῦν τῆσ Κρήτησ περίπολον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 49:1)
  • τὴν χώραν ἅπασαν εἰσ τοὺσ καλουμένουσ πάγουσ καὶ κατέστησεν ἐφ’ ἑκάστου τῶν πάγων ἄρχοντα ἐπίσκοπόν τε καὶ περίπολον τῆσ ἰδίασ μοίρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 76 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. going the rounds

  2. an attendant

Related

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

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