περιαιρέω
γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν → we are all made for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth, from whence it follows that clashing and opposition is perfectly unnatural
English (LSJ)
aor.
A περιεῖλον Hdt.3.159, etc.:—take away something that surrounds, strip off, remove, c. acc. rei, τεῖχος Hdt.l.c., cf. 6.46, Th.1.108, 4.51, 133; π. τὸν κέραμον taking off the earthen jar into which the gold had been run, Hdt.3.96; π. τὸν χιτῶνα Arist.HA557b20; δέρματα σωμάτων π. strip skins off from... Pl.Plt.288e; αὐτοῦ τὰ κοινὰ πάντα περιελόντες Id.Sph.264e; π. τινὰ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐξουσίας Hdn.3.11.3; simply, take away from, τῶν πολεμικῶν τὸ μελετᾶν X.Cyr.2.1.21, etc.:—Med., take off from oneself, π. τὴν κυνέην, τὴν σφρηγῖδα, take off one's helmet, one's signet-ring, Hdt.2.151, 3.41; τὰς ταινίας Pl.Smp.213a; βυβλίον περιαιρεόμενος taking [the cover] off one's letter, i. e. opening it, Hdt.3.128; π. τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῆς ἀπολογίας αὑτοῦ Lycurg.35: but Med. is freq. used like Act., strip off, take away, τὸ περιελέσθαι αὐτῶν τὰ ὅπλα X. Cyr.8.1.47; εἴ τις περιελοιτο τῆς ποιήσεως τὸ μέλος Pl.Grg.502c (v.l. for περιέλοι) τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὑμῶν περιῄρηνται D.19.220 ; ἁπάντων τὴν ἐλευθερίαν περιείλετο Id.18.65; περιείλοντό μου ὑποζύγια δύο PCair.Zen.659.7(iii B. C.):—Pass., to be taken off, τοὐπίβλημ' ἐπεὶ περιῃρέθη Nicostr.Com.15; τοῦ ἄλλου περιῃρημένου when the rest has been taken away, Th.3.11; περιῃρημένων τοσούτων κακῶν Pl.Phdr.231b; τείχη περιῃρημένα D.19.65. 2 make void, cancel a vow, LXXNu.30.13. 3 strike off, cancel an item in an account, PCair.Zen.147 (iii B. C.):—Pass., Sammelb.5136.8 (iii A. D.). II Pass., c. acc. rei, to be stripped of a thing, have a thing taken off or away from one, περιῃρημένοι χρήματα καὶ συμμάχους D.3.31; περιαιρεθεὶς τὰ ὄντα Id.21.138; τοὺς στεφάνους περιῄρηνται Id.26.5: with acc. understood, περιαιρεθήσεσθαι ἤμελλον Epicur.Nat.15.34.
