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περίπυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίπυστος περίπυστον

Structure: περιπυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. known all round about

Examples

  • καὶ δυνηθεὶσ ἂν πολλαῖσ τριήρεσι κατὰ σκαφῶν μικρῶν, ὑπὸ δέουσ τῆσ Καίσαροσ εὐτυχίασ περιπύστου δὴ καὶ ἐπιφόβου τότε οὔσησ ἐξεπλάγη καὶ νομίσασ οἱ τὸν Καίσαρα ἐπίτηδεσ ἐπιπλεῖν τὰσ χεῖρασ ὤρεγεν ἐσ αὐτόν, ἀπὸ τριήρων ἐσ σκάφη, καὶ συγγνώμην ᾔτει καὶ τὰσ τριήρεισ παρεδίδου. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 13 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. known all round about

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

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