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περιφορά

περιφορά, meats carried round

περιφορ-ά, ἡ,
  • carrying round, of dishes at table: hence, meats carried round, course at dinner, X. Cyr. 2.2.4, Heraclid.Tarent. ap. Ath. 3.120c (pl.), cf. 7.275b.
    • II (from Pass.) going round, circular or rotatory motion, revolution, of a wheel, E. Ba. 1067; of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Ar. Nu. 172, X. Mem. 4.7.5, Pl. Phdr. 247c, Lg. 898c, Arist. Mete. 341a2, Cael. 291a35, Epicur. Nat. 11.10, al.; αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν π. J. AJ 1.1.1, cf. Pl. R. 546a, Plt. 271a, 274e.
      • 2 revolving vault of heaven, Id. R. 616c, Tht. 153d; ἡ ὕπερθε π. the heavens, Critias 25.31 D.
      • 3 metaph., in pl., twists, circumvolutions, Eub. 73.
      • 4 ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖς in social intercourse, Plu. Per. 5.
      • 5 error, v.l. for παραφορά in LXX Ec. 2.12, 7.26(25).
    • III story or tier of a funeral pile, D.S. 17.115.
    • IV turntable (?), PTeb. 12.17 (ii B.C.).

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