Περιεῖπον

they were treating

Translated by David Whitehead24 Jul 2011Vetting: high6 revisions

10 words

[Meaning] they behaved towards a certain person carefully and protectively.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περιεῖπον· περί τινα ἦσαν θεραπευτικῶς καὶ φυλακτικῶς.

Betacode

*periei=pon: peri/ tina h)=san qerapeutikw=s kai\ fulaktikw=s.

Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and in Photius pi665 Theodoridis.
The headword -- imperfect of perie/pw (pi 1119), third person plural -- is evidently quoted from somewhere. A strong possibility (Ruhnken, Theodoridis) is Herodotus 7.181.3, an episode about the Persians dealing with the crew of a captured Aeginetan trireme: most of them they treated as slaves (periei=pon w(s a)ndra/poda), though the brave marine Pytheas got preferential treatment (perie/pontes eu)=). See web address 1.

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