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|auten=[[around]], see [[ἀμφί]].—I. adv. (including the so-called ‘tmesis’).— (1) [[around]], [[all]] [[round]]; περὶ [[γάρ]] ῥά ἑ χαλκὸς ἔλεψεν &#124; φύλλα τε καὶ φλοιόν, i. e. the leaves and [[bark]] [[that]] encircled it, Il. 1.236; so of throwing a [[cloak]] [[about]] [[one]], [[standing]] [[around]] in crowds, [[being]] enveloped by the shades of [[night]], Il. 3.384, Il. 10.201.—(2) [[over]] and [[above]] others, in an [[extraordinary]] [[degree]], [[very]]; [[περί]] [[τοι]] [[μένος]], ‘thou hast [[exceeding]] [[strength]]’, Od. 12.279 ; περὶ μὲν θείειν ταχύν, Il. 16.186; τὸν περὶ [[Μοῦσα]] φίλησε, ‘[[above]] others,’ ‘[[extraordinarily]],’ Od. 8.63.—A subst. in the [[appropriate]] [[case]] [[may]] [[specify]] the [[relation]] of the adv., περὶ δὲ ζώνην βάλετ' ἰξυῖ (dat. of [[place]]), Od. 5.231 ; ἦ σε περὶ [[Ζεὺς]] ἀνθρώπων ἤχθηρε (partitive gen.), Od. 19.363, in the [[phrase]] περὶ κῆρι, περὶ θῦμῷ, [[περί]] is adv., and the dat. [[local]].—II. prep., (1) w. gen., [[rare]] of [[place]], περὶ [[τρόπιος]] [[βεβαώς]], i. e. bestriding it, Od. 5.130, 68; <&lt;>*<&gt;>sually met., [[about]], [[for]], in [[behalf]] of, of the obj. of [[contention]] or the [[thing]] defended, μάχεσθαι περὶ [[νηός]], ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ [[νηῶν]], Π 1, Il. 12.142; [[then]] [[with]] verbs of [[saying]], [[inquiring]], [[about]], [[concerning]], of (de), μνήσασθαι περὶ πομπῆς, Od. 7.191; [[rarely]] causal, περὶ ἔριδος μάρνασθαι, Il. 7.301; denoting [[superiority]], [[above]], περὶ πάντων [[ἔμμεναι]] ἄλλων, Il. 1.287; so [[with]] adjectives, περὶ πάντων [[κρατερός]], ὀιζυρός.—(2) w. dat., [[local]], [[around]], on, as of [[something]] transfixed on a [[spit]] or a [[weapon]], περὶ δουρὶ πεπαρμένη, Il. 21.577; so of [[clothing]] on the [[person]], περὶ χροῒ εἵματα ἔχειν, χαλκὸς περὶ στήθεσσι, [[κνίση]] ἑλισσομένη περὶ καπνῷ, [[curling]] ‘[[around]] in’ the [[smoke]], Il. 1.317; [[then]] [[sometimes]] w. verbs of contending, [[like]] the gen., [[about]], [[for]], Od. 2.245, Od. 17.471, Il. 16.568, and w. a [[verb]] of fearing, Il. 10.240. Often the dat. is to be explained [[independently]], [[περί]] [[being]] adverbial, see [[above]] (I).— (3) w. acc., [[local]] implying [[motion]], [[στῆσαι]] (τὶ) περὶ βωμόν, φυλάσσειν περὶ μῆλα, and esp. of sounds, fumes floating [[around]], [[coming]] [[over]] the senses, [[stealing]] [[over]] [[one]], περὶ δέ σφεας ἤλυθ [[ἰωή]], Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθεν [[οἶνος]], ‘went to his [[head]],’ we should [[say]], Od. 17.261, Od. 9.362; met., of [[that]] in [[which]] [[one]] is [[interested]], πονεῖν [[περί]] τι, ‘[[about]],’ ‘[[over]],’ ‘[[with]],’ Il. 24.444, Od. 4.624.