Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

περίστυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίστυλος περίστυλον

Structure: περιστυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with pillars round the wall, surrounded with a colonnade
  2. a peristyle, colonnade round a temple or court-yard

Examples

  • καὶ εἰσήγαγέ με εἰσ τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν ἐσωτέραν, καὶ ἰδοὺ παστοφόρια καὶ περίστυλα κύκλῳ τῆσ αὐλῆσ, τριάκοντα παστοφόρια ἐν τοῖσ περιστύλοισ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 40:17)
  • οὔσησ γὰρ τῆσ ξυλείασ ἁπάσησ κεδρίνησ καὶ κυπαριττίνησ, οὐδεμίαν αὐτῶν γεγυμνῶσθαι συνέβαινεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ δοκοὺσ καὶ τὰ φατνώματα καὶ τοὺσ κίονασ τοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ στοαῖσ καὶ περιστύλοισ, τοὺσ μὲν ἀργυραῖσ, τοὺσ δὲ χρυσαῖσ λεπίσι περιειλῆφθαι, τὰσ δὲ κεραμίδασ ἀργυρᾶσ εἶναι πάσασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, iv. res asiae 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. with pillars round the wall

Related

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

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