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|Definition=(A)ὁ, [[one who goes the rounds]], [[patrol]], Aen.Tact.22.3, al., ''Rev.Arch.''1911(2).424 (Mesembria, i B. C.).<br><span class="bld">2.</span> = [[περιοδονίκης]], IG14.1107 (Rom.imp.), IGRom.4.1251 (Thyatira, iii a.d.; to be red for περὶ ὁδῶν); τρὶς π. [[κῆρυξ]] Inscr.Olymp.243 (iii a.d.)(B)(Dor. [[πέροδος]], [[quod vide|q.v.]]), ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[going round]], [[marching round]], [[flank march]], τῶν Περσέων ἡ περίοδος Hdt.7.219,229; περίοδος καὶ [[κύκλωσις]] Th.4.35.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[slow walk]], Gal.17(2).99.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[passage]] of [[fluid]]s, Aret. ''SD''1.10, cf. Arist.''Pr.''870a10.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[way round]], Hdt.7.223; λίμνης Id.1.185; [[circumference]], [[circuit]], [[compass]], [[σήμα]]τος, τείχεος, ib.93, 163: abs., [[τὴν περίοδον]] = [[in circumference]], Id.7.109.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[γῆς περίοδος]] = [[chart]] or [[map]] of the [[earth]], Id.4.36, 5.49, Ar.''Nu.''206, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''362b12, Agathem.1.1; αἱ τῆς γῆς περίοδοι [[books of descriptive geography]], Arist. ''Pol.''1262a19, ''Rh.''1360a34, ''Mete.''350a16.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[going round in a circle]], [[coming round to the starting-point]], [[circuit]], ἡ τοῦ τρίποδος [[περίοδος]] Plu. ''Sol.''4.<br><span class="bld">2</span> especially of [[time]], [[cycle of time]] or [[period of time]], πάσαις ἐτέων περόδοις Pi. ''N.''11.40; freq. in Pl., ἐν πολλαῖς χρόνου καὶ μακραῖς περιόδοις ''Phd.''107e; [[περίοδος]] [[χιλιετής]] ''Phdr.''249a: abs., ''R.''546b, Epicur.''Ep.''1p.27U. (pl.), etc.; [[κατὰ φύσιν]] περίοδος Arist.''GA''777b18; of the [[Great Year]] of the Stoics, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.189(pl.); [[ἐκ περιόδου]] = [[periodically]], [[in rotation]], Heraclid.''Pol.''58, Plb.2.43.1, etc.; ἐν περιόδῳ Plu.''Eum.''8; esp. [[the period embracing the four great public games]], κατὰ τὰν περίοδον ἑκάσταν ''IG''9(1).694.31 (Corc.); ἐνίκησε τὴν περίοδον Ath.10.415a; νικώμενος τὴν περίοδον Arr. ''Epict.''3.25.5, cf. Poll.4.89; v. [[περιοδονίκης]].<br><span class="bld">3</span> of events, [[periodic recurrence]], [[cycle]], Isoc.15.174, Thphr.''CP''1.13.1.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[cycle]], [[roster]] of public officials, τῇ πρὸ ταύτης περιόδῳ τῶν μελλόντων [[λειτουργεῖν]] ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]'' 1119.6 (iii A. D.), cf. 1552.3 (iii A. D.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> Medic., [[a regular prescribed course of life]], [[ἐν τῇ καθεστηκυίᾳ περιόδῳ ζῆν]] = to [[live in the regular course]], Pl.''R.''4073; αἱ ἰατρικαὶ περίοδοι = the [[periodical]] [[visit]]s of a [[regular]] [[physician]], the [[doctor]]'s [[round]]s, Luc.''Gall.''23, cf. ''Nigr.''22: hence, [[medical]] [[practice]], Heraclasap.Orib.48.18.2.<br><span class="bld">b</span> the [[period of menstruation]], Arist.''GA''738a17.<br><span class="bld">c</span> [[fit]] of [[intermittent]] [[fever]], or the like, Hp. ''Aph.''4.59 (pl.), D.9.19; [[ὁ ἐκ περιόδου πυρετός]] = an [[intermittent]] [[fever]], Luc.''Philops.''9.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[course at dinner]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''2.2.2; [[περίοδος λόγων]] = [[table-talk]], Id.''Smp.''4.64.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[orbit of a heavenly body]], Id.''Mem.'' 4.7.5; ἀστέρος κυκλικὴ περίοδος Vett.Val.94.20; also [[θεριναὶ περίοδοι]] = τροπαί, Hp.Aër.19; [[revolution]] of a [[heavenly]] [[body]], Epicur.''Ep.''1p.28U.<br><span class="bld">V</span> [[survey]] in thought, ἡ ἅμα νοήματι περίοδος τῶν κυριωτάτων ib.p.32U.<br><span class="bld">VI</span> Rhet., [[period]], Thrasymach. ap. Suid.s.v. [[Θρασύμαχος]], etc.; defined as [[λέξις]] ἔχουσα ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν καὶ μέγεθος [[εὐσύνοπτος|εὐσύνοπτον]], Arist.''Rh.''1409a35, etc.; also in Music and Metric, Heph.Poëm.3.5, Aristid.Quint.1.14.<br><span class="bld">VII</span> [[vessel]] used in [[iron]]-[[founding]], Arist.''Fr.''261.<br><span class="bld">VIII</span> [[entrance to a temple enclosure]], ''IG''11(2).158 ''A''65 (Delos, iii B. C.).<br><span class="bld">IX</span> = Lat. [[regio]], περίοδος Καρίας Maiuri Nuova Silloge 562 (Cos).