περίοδος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[one who goes the rounds]], [[patrol]], <span class="bibl">Aen.Tact.22.3</span>, al., <span class="title">Rev.Arch.</span>1911(2).424 (Mesembria, i B. C.).</span><br /><span class="bld">περίοδος</span> (Dor. [[πέροδος]], q.v.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[going round]], [[marching round]], [[flank march]], [[τῶν Περσέων ἡ π]]. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.219</span>,<span class="bibl">229</span> ; π. καὶ κύκλωσις <span class="bibl">Th.4.35</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[slow walk]], Gal.17(2).99. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[passage]] of fluids, <span class="bibl">Aret. <span class="title">SD</span>1.10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>870a10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[way round]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.223</span> ; λίμνης <span class="bibl">Id.1.185</span>; [[circumference]], [[circuit]], [[compass]], [[σήματος]], [[τείχεος]], ib.<span class="bibl">93</span>, <span class="bibl">163</span> : abs., [[τὴν π]]. [[in circumference]], <span class="bibl">Id.7.109</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[γῆς περίοδος]] = [[chart]] or [[map]] of the [[earth]], <span class="bibl">Id.4.36</span>, <span class="bibl">5.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>206</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>362b12</span>, Agathem.1.1 ; αἱ τῆς γῆς π. [[books of descriptive geography]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Pol.</span>1262a19</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1360a34</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mete.</span>350a16</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[going round in a circle]], [[coming round to the starting-point]], [[circuit]], ἡ τοῦ τρίποδος περίοδος <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Sol.</span>4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> esp. of Time, [[cycle of time]] or [[period of time]], [[πάσαις ἐτέων π]]. <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">N.</span>11.40</span>; freq. in Pl., [[ἐν πολλαῖς χρόνου καὶ μακραῖς π]]. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phd.</span>107e</span> ; π. χιλιετής <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>249a</span>: abs., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>546b</span>, <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>1p.27U.</span> (pl.), etc.; [[κατὰ φύσιν]] π. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>777b18</span>; of the [[Great Year]] of the Stoics, <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.2.189</span>(pl.); [[ἐκ περιόδου]] [[periodically]], [[in rotation]], <span class="bibl">Heraclid.<span class="title">Pol.</span>58</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.2.43.1</span>, etc.; ἐν περιόδῳ <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Eum.</span>8</span> ; esp. [[the period embracing the four great public games]], κατὰ τὰν π. ἑκάσταν <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).694.31 (Corc.); ἐνίκησε τὴν π. <span class="bibl">Ath.10.415a</span>; νικώμενος τὴν π. <span class="bibl">Arr. <span class="title">Epict.</span>3.25.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Poll.4.89</span>; v. [[περιοδονίκης]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of events, [[periodic recurrence]], [[cycle]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.15.174</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>1.13.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[cycle]], [[roster]] of public officials, τῇ πρὸ ταύτης π. τῶν μελλόντων λειτουργεῖν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span> 1119.6</span> (iii A. D.), cf. <span class="bibl">1552.3</span> (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> Medic., [[a regular prescribed course of life]], [[ἐν τῇ καθεστηκυίᾳ περιόδῳ ζῆν]] = to [[live in the regular course]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>4073</span>; αἱ ἰατρικαὶ π. = the [[periodical]] [[visit]]s of a [[regular]] [[physician]], the [[doctor]]'s [[round]]s, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Gall.</span>23</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Nigr.</span>22</span> : hence, [[medical]] [[practice]], Heraclasap.<span class="bibl">Orib.48.18.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[the period of menstruation]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>738a17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> [[fit]] of intermittent fever, or the like, <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Aph.</span>4.59</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl">D.9.19</span>; [[ὁ ἐκ περιόδου πυρετός]] = an [[intermittent]] [[fever]], <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Philops.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[course at dinner]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.2.2</span> ; [[περίοδος λόγων]] = [[table-talk]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Smp.</span>4.64</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> [[orbit of a heavenly body]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Mem.</span> 4.7.5</span> ; ἀστέρος κυκλικὴ π. <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.94.20</span>; also [[θεριναὶ π]]., = τροπαί, Hp.Aër.19; [[revolution]] of a [[heavenly]] [[body]], <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>1p.28U.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> [[survey]] in thought, [[ἡ ἅμα νοήματι π. τῶν κυριωτάτων]] ib.<span class="bibl">p.32U.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> Rhet., [[period]], Thrasymach. ap. Suid.s.v. [[Θρασύμαχος]], etc.; defined as [[λέξις]] ἔχουσα ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν καὶ μέγεθος εὐσύνοπτον, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1409a35</span>, etc.; also in Music and Metric, Heph.Poëm.<span class="bibl">3.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.14</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VII</span> [[vessel]] used in [[iron]]-[[founding]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>261</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VIII</span> [[entrance to a temple enclosure]], <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).158 <span class="title">A</span>65 (Delos, iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IX</span> = Lat. [[regio]], π. Καρίας Maiuri Nuova Silloge 562 (Cos).</span>