περικρατέω
Ζῆν οὐκ ἄξιος, ὅτῳ μηδὲ εἷς ἐστι χρηστὸς φίλος → Life is not worth living if you do not have at least one friend.
English (LSJ)
A have full command of : hold fast, βέλος χειρί Hp.VC 11 : c.gen., εὐγενείας Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.44. 2 lord it over, Ἑλλάδος Σφίγγα περικρατοῦσαν Carm.Pop.46.24, cf. Iamb. ap. Simp.in Cat. 375.17; preuail over, ἐχθρῶν Ph.2.383; controi, π. τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμός LXX 4 Ma.1.9; ἄνθρωποι π. πάντων J.AJ11.3.4; προσώπου, of an actor, Simp.in Epict.p.125 D.; master with the mind, θεωρημάτων Ph.1.105, cf. PGnom.Praef. (ii A. D.), Theol.Ar.59 : abs., v.l. in Plu.2.526f :— Pass., to be mastered, cured, of a disease, Archig. ap. Aët.9.40.
German (Pape)
[Seite 581] obsiegen, besiegen, Plut. u. a. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
περικρᾰτέω: κρατῶ τι ἰσχυρῶς, καὶ ἢν περικρατέῃ τῇ χειρὶ τὸ βέλος Ἱππ., ἐν Κεφ. Τρωμ. 902. 2) ἐπικρατῶ, ὑπερισχύω ὑπεράνω, τὴν δ’ οὐχὶ Θηβῶν, ἀλλ’ ὅλης τῆς Ἑλλάδος σφίγγα περικρατοῦσαν Δοῦρις ὁ Σάμιος παρ’ Ἀθην. 253Ε, κτλ.· ἀπολ., Πλούτ. 2. 526F.
