1. going round, compassing, encircling , (Euripides) 2. as Substantive, περίβολος = περιβολή, ἐχίδνης περίβολοι the spires or coils of a serpent, (Euripides); in plural walls round a town , (Herdotus Historicus); so in singular, (Thucydides) 3. an enclosure, circuit, compass , π. νεωρίων (Euripides); of a temple, the precincts , (Plutarch) (ML)
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G8720 — περίβολος
peribolos · an enclosure · Greek