A.wind round, “τὴν ἐσθῆτα τῇ κεφαλῇ” Plu.Cam.25 :— Med., τὰ μέσα . . ὁπλίταις περιεσπειραμένος having concentrated his troops around . . , Id.Ages.31 :—Pass., form round, “ἀνδρῶν κύκλῳ περιεσπειραμένων” Id.Cic.22 ; of serpents, etc., twine, coil round, “δράκοντα περιεσπειραμένον τὸ δέρος” D.S.4.48 : c. dat., τισι Luc.Hist. Conscr.29 ; “τῷ ποδί” Id.Dips.6 : metaph., insinuate oneself into, “τὰς αὐλάς” Eun.Hist.p.257 D.
περισπειράω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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