circumlocution
From LSJ
ἔτυχες εἰς τὴν μάχην ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ πεμφθεὶς → you happened to be sent into the battle by the general
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
V. περιπλοκαί λόγων, αἱ (Euripides, Phoenissae 494), Ar. περίλεξις, ἡ.
long-windedness: P. μακρολογία, ἡ.
