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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

  • ὅθεν ἀπολαβὼν ὁ Πτολεμαῖοσ εἴσ τι περίστυλον ὡσ ἀναψύξοντα τὸν βασιλέα μετέθηκε, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:46)
  • καὶ αἱ στοαὶ κατὰ νώτου τῶν πυλῶν, κατὰ τὸ μῆκοσ τῶν πυλῶν τὸ περίστυλον τὸ ὑποκάτω. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 40:18)
  • καὶ οἱ περίπατοι οἱ ὑπερῷοι ὡσαύτωσ, ὅτι ἐξείχετο τὸ περίστυλον ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ ὑποκάτωθεν περιστύλου, καὶ τὸ διάστημα. οὕτωσ περίστυλον καὶ διάστημα (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 42:5)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐκδεχόμενον τὴν καμάραν περίστυλον χρυσοῦν ὑπῆρχεν, ἔχον Ιὠνικὰ κιονόκρανα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 26 6:3)

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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