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περίεστιν (periestin)

περίεστιν is an Ancient Greek form of περίειμι, meaning “be superior; survive”. It is the present indicative.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 23.3: … πολλῶν πόνων καὶ κινδύνων ἐκείνων ἐκτησάμην ἔπαθλον ἢ τὸ παράσημον ὄνομα τῆς πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἔχθρας, καὶ τοῦτό μοι περίεστιν ἀναφαίρετον τὰ δʼ ἄλλα ὁμοῦ πάντα φθόνῳ δήμου καὶ ὕβρει, μαλακίᾳ δὲ καὶ προδοσίᾳ τῶν ἐν τέλει καὶ ἰσοτίμων ἀπ …

All forms of περίειμι (conjugation 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.