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|Definition=aor. <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> περιεῖλον <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.159</span>, etc.:—<b class="b2">take away something that surrounds, strip off, remove</b>, c. acc. rei, [[τεῖχος]] Hdt.l.c., cf. <span class="bibl">6.46</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.108</span>, <span class="bibl">4.51</span>, <span class="bibl">133</span>; <b class="b3">π. τὸν κέραμον</b> [[taking off]] the earthen jar into which the gold had been run, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.96</span>; π. τὸν χιτῶνα <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>557b20</span>; <b class="b3">δέρματα σωμάτων π</b>. [[strip]] skins [[off from]]... <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>288e</span>; αὐτοῦ τὰ κοινὰ πάντα περιελόντες <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Sph.</span>264e</span>; π. τινὰ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐξουσίας <span class="bibl">Hdn.3.11.3</span>; simply, [[take away from]], τῶν πολεμικῶν τὸ μελετᾶν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.1.21</span>, etc.:—Med., [[take off from oneself]], <b class="b3">π. τὴν κυνέην, τὴν σφρηγῖδα</b>, <b class="b2">take off one's</b> helmet, <b class="b2">one's</b> signet-ring, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.151</span>, <span class="bibl">3.41</span>; τὰς ταινίας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>213a</span>; <b class="b3">βυβλίον περιαιρεόμενος</b> <b class="b2">taking [the cover] off one's</b> letter, i. e. [[opening]] it, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.128</span>; π. τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῆς ἀπολογίας αὑτοῦ <span class="bibl">Lycurg.35</span>: but Med. is freq. used like Act., [[strip off]], [[take away]], τὸ περιελέσθαι αὐτῶν τὰ ὅπλα <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Cyr.</span>8.1.47</span>; εἴ τις περιελοιτο τῆς ποιήσεως τὸ μέλος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>502c</span> (v.l. for [[περιέλοι]]) τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὑμῶν περιῄρηνται <span class="bibl">D.19.220</span> ; ἁπάντων τὴν ἐλευθερίαν περιείλετο <span class="bibl">Id.18.65</span>; περιείλοντό μου ὑποζύγια δύο <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>659.7</span>(iii B. C.):—Pass., to [[be taken off]], τοὐπίβλημ' ἐπεὶ περιῃρέθη <span class="bibl">Nicostr.Com.15</span>; <b class="b3">τοῦ ἄλλου περιῃρημένου</b> [[when]] the rest [[has been taken away]], <span class="bibl">Th.3.11</span>; περιῃρημένων τοσούτων κακῶν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>231b</span>; τείχη περιῃρημένα <span class="bibl">D.19.65</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[make void]], [[cancel]] a vow, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Nu.</span>30.13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[strike off]], [[cancel]] an item in an account, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>147</span> (iii B. C.):—Pass., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sammelb.</span>5136.8</span> (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> Pass., c. acc. rei, to [[be stripped of]] a thing, [[have]] a thing [[taken off]] or [[away from]] one, περιῃρημένοι χρήματα καὶ συμμάχους <span class="bibl">D.3.31</span>; περιαιρεθεὶς τὰ ὄντα <span class="bibl">Id.21.138</span>; τοὺς στεφάνους περιῄρηνται <span class="bibl">Id.26.5</span>: with acc. understood, περιαιρεθήσεσθαι ἤμελλον <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Nat.</span>15.34</span>.</span>