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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: metarriptô 2: exanastrephô 3: apotrepteon 4: parocheteuô 5: katastrephô
Latin1: pervoluto 2: amolior 3: depello 4: provolvo 5: inverto
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peritrepô, turn and bring round, divert, tên anathumiasin eisô -trepesthai is diverted inwards, Arist.Mete.367a32 ; mê boulesthe eis humas tên aitian -trepsai Lys. 6.13; gunaikas phasi tois andrasi peritrepein ta spheter' autôn hamartêmata Aristid.2.420 J.; eis tounantion ton logon Eus.Mynd.2 ; epi thatera Aristid.1.112 J.; to sphalma eis allo makrôi aisiôteron perietrapê Luc.Laps.15 ; ho logos eis oneidos -tetraptai Plu.2.1036f ; p. tina eis manian, eis charan, Act.Ap.26.24, J.AJ9.4.4; eis algêma Sor.1.26 (Pass.) : c. inf., tounantion p. timênuein bring a thing round to signify the opposite, Plat. Crat. 418b.

2. turn upside down, upset, cheimôn p. tên naun Luc.Cont.7; peritrapeis Odusseus capsized, Plu.2.831d ; têi rhumêi tou hippou tina p. IDEM=Plu.Marc.7 : metaph., [hupsos] perietrepsen ê chronos tis ê phthonos Trag.Adesp.547.4 ; p. thronous dikastôn LXX Wi.5.23 ; p. eis kakotrophian pervert, Ath.Med.ap.Orib. inc.au=Ath.Med.ap.Orib. 21.1 ; mê tis . . baskania p. ton logon
Plat. Phaedo 95b ; refute, p. seauton IDEM=Pl.Ax.37oa, cf. Aps.au=Pl. Ax. 37p.278=lr H.:--

  • Pass., to paradeigma peritetraptai Luc.JTr.49; of a person, collapse in argument, Phld.Sign.29; refute oneself, D.L.3.35 ; peritrepetai ho logos Dam.Pr.7.

    3. turn away from, douli' erga kai duên p. Semon.7.58 (nisi leg. peritremei).


    4. Pass., to be folded over, of skin, Gal.UP3.12.


    5. peritrepetai: ilingiai, Hsch.


    II. intr. in aor. 2, turn or go round, peri d' etrapon hôrai
    Hom. Od. 10.469.