περιπλοκή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">twining round, interlacing</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>540b4</span>; περιπλοκαὶ γυναικῶν <span class="bibl">Plb.2.56.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Alex.</span>39</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">περιπλοκῆς δεῖται [ὁ κιττός</b>] Plu.2.649c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> in the philos. of Epicurus, <b class="b2">interlacing</b> of atoms, <span class="title">Ep.</span>1p.8U., 2p.44U. (pl.), al.; περιπλοκὴν περιπλέκεσθαι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>208</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., of one wrestling in argument, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.199</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">entanglement, complication</b>, POxy.533.10 (ii/iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">intricacy</b>, <b class="b3">περιπλοκὰς λόγων</b> <b class="b2">circumlocutions</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>494</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hermog.<span class="title">Meth.</span>8</span>; περιπλοκὰς λίαν ἐρωτᾷς <span class="bibl">Antiph.74.1</span>; <b class="b3">τί οὖν . . π. λέγεις</b>; <span class="bibl">Strato Com.1.35</span>; χωρὶς -πλοκῆς λέγειν τἀληθῆ <span class="bibl">M.Ant.12.1</span>.</span>