περιφορά
periphora
carrying round
Appears 29 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
περιφορά, ἡ, A. carrying round, of dishes at table : hence, meats carried round, course at dinner, Cyr. 2.2.4, Heraclid.Tarent. ap. 3.12oc (pl.), cf. 7.275b. II. (from Pass.) going round, circular or rotatory motion, revolution, of a wheel, Ba. 1067 ; of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Nu. 172, Mem. 4.7.5, Phdr. 247c, Lg. 898c, Mete. 341a2, Cael. 291a35, Nat. 11.10,al.; αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν π. AJ 1.1.1, cf. R. 546a, Plt. 271a,274e. 2. revolving vault of heaven, R. 616c, Tht. 153d ; ἡ ὕπερθε π. the heavens, 25.31 3. metaph., in pl., twists, circumvolutions, 73. 4. ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖς in social intercourse, Per. 5. 5. error, v.l. for παραφορά in Ec. 2.12,7.26(25). III. story or tier of a funeral pile, 17.115. IV. turntable (?), PTeb. 12.17 (ii B.C.).
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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