πέριξ

perix

round about, all round

Appears 17 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 4
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Book III 3
Chapter 2 752a9–754a20

752a30

Chapter 3 754a21–755a5

754a33
754b6
Book V 1
Chapter 3 781b30–784a22

783b34
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 4
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Chapter 5 469b21–470a18

470a14
Chapter 9 471a20–471b29

471b7
Chapter 10 471b30–472b5

472a33
Chapter 14 474a25–474b24

474b21
On the Heavens 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 2 268b11–269b17

269b7
Book II 1
Chapter 4 286b10–287b21

287b19
History of Animals 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 493a17–493b1

493a32
Book VII 1
Chapter 10 587a9–587b18

587a21
Meteorology 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 4 341b1–342a33

341b13
Book IV 1
Chapter 3 380a11–381b22

381a14
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 3 392b14–394a6

393b30
De Interpretatione 1
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Chapter 3 16b6–25

16b18
Parts of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 9 684b6–685b28

685a7

Dictionary (LSJ)

πέριξ, strengthd. for περί, mostly Ion. Prose and Trag. (in latter usu. Adv.): I. Prep., round about, all round, c. gen., Hdt. 1.179, 2.91, X. An. 7.8.12, Epicur. Ep. 2p.51U., etc. 2. rarely c. dat., E. Ph. 710. 3. commonly c. acc., Hdt. 1.196, 3.158, 4.36, al.: mostly before its case, but also after, ib.52,79, as also in A. Pers. 368, dub. in E. HF 243. II. Adv. round about, π. ὑπορύσσοντες τὸ τεῖχος Hdt. 5.115 ; π. λαβεῖν ἄνθρωπον to surround him, ib.87; κύκλῳ π. A. Pers. 418, dub. in S. Ant. 1301, E. Andr. 266 ; [Ὠκεανὸς] π. γᾶν ἀμπέχει Limen. 10 : metaph., πᾶν π. φρονοῦντες circuitously, E. Andr. 448 : rare in Att. Prose, π. πολιορκεῖν Th. 6.90; ὁ π. τόπος, οἱ π., Pl. Ti. 62e, X. Cyr. 1.5.2, cf. Epicur. Ep. 2p.47U.; ὁ π. χρόνος, i.e. all times save the present, Arist. Int. 16b18 ; τὸ π. ὕδωρ Thphr. Sens. 26 ; later αἱ π. πόλεις Act.Ap. 5.16 ; αἱ π. κῶμαι SIG 880.44 (Pizus, iii A.D.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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