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===substantive===

[[limit]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[μέτρον]], τό, [[ὅρος]], ὁ.

[[circuit]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[περίβολος]], ὁ, [[κύκλος]], ὁ, [[περίδρομος]] ὁ ([[Plato]]), [[περιβολή]], ἡ, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]], [[περιφορά]], ἡ.

[[pair of compasses]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[διαβήτης]], ὁ ([[Plato]]).

[[fetch a compass]], v.: [[prose|P.]] [[περιβάλλειν]], [[περιπλεῖν]].

[[it is easy to pray]], [[gathering together in a small compass all one's desire]]: [[prose|P.]] [[εὔξασθαι ῥᾴδιον εἰς ταὐτὸ πάνθ' ὅσα βούλεταί τις ἁθροίσαντα ἐν ὀλίγῳ]] ([[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 33).

[[within the compass of]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐντός]] (gen.).

===verb transitive===

[[encompass]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[περιβάλλειν]], [[verse|V.]] [[ἀμπέχειν]], [[ἀμπίσχειν]], [[ἀμφιβάλλειν]], [[πυκάζειν]]; see [[cover]].

[[compass an object]]: [[prose|P.]] [[περιβάλλεσθαι]]; see [[contrive]], [[accomplish]].

[[compass]] (a [[person]]'s) [[death]], [[compass death]]: [[prose|P.]] [[παρασκευάζειν θάνατον]] (dat.).

[[if, however, we compass not the death of Helen]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἢν δ' οὖν τὸν Ἑλένης μὴ κατάσχωμεν φόνον]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes]]'' 1149).

[[if we compass our wishes]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐὰν κατάσχωμεν ἃ βουλόμεθα]] (Andoc. 6).

[[include]]: see [[include]].
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