περιέστη (perieste)

περιέστη is an Ancient Greek form of περιίστημι, meaning “stand around, surround”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76.4: ἄλλους γ’ ἂν οὖν οἰόμεθα τὰ ἡμέτερα λαβόντας δεῖξαι ἂν μάλιστα εἴ τι μετριάζομεν· ἡμῖν δὲ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιεικοῦς ἀδοξία τὸ πλέον ἢ ἔπαινος οὐκ εἰκότως περιέστη.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.5·2: … των σημασίαν ἑρμηνεύων ἔλεγεν “ἠρίθμησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν χρόνον τῆς ζωῆς σου καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς σου, καὶ εἰς ἄγαν βραχὺ περιἐστη.” ἐξελληνιζομένη γὰρ ἡ λέξις λέγοιτ’ ἂν ἀριθμός. οὕτω μὲν οὖν ἡρμήνευσε τὸ μανή, τὸ δέ γε θεκὲλ σημαίνειν ἔφη …

All forms of περιίστημι (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.