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περίβολον (peribolon)

περίβολον is an Ancient Greek form of περίβολος, meaning “enclosure; circuit wall”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 1530: ὡς δʼ ἤλθομεν σῶν περίβολον νεωρίων,

Plato, Lysis 203: … μέντοι. ποῖ, ἔφην ἐγώ, λέγεις, καὶ παρὰ τίνας τοὺς ὑμᾶς; δεῦρο, ἔφη, δείξας μοι ἐν τῷ καταντικρὺ τοῦ τείχους περίβολόν τέ τινα καὶ θύραν ἀνεῳγμένην. διατρίβομεν δέ, ἦ δʼ ὅς, αὐτόθι ἡμεῖς τε αὐτοὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πάνυ πολλοὶ καὶ καλοί.

Procopius, De Bellis 5.23.4: καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ Περίβολον Διερρωγότα Ῥωμαῖοι τῇ σφετέρᾳ γλώσσῃ ἐκ παλαιοῦ καλοῦσι τὸν χῶρον.

All forms of περίβολος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.