περικείμενον (perikeimenon)

περικείμενον is an Ancient Greek form of περίκειμαι, meaning “lie around”. It is the present middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 27.2: … ν ὅσον ἐν λίθοις, ἐν βαφαῖς ἐσθῆτος, ἐν τέχναις χρυσοῦ περὶ κόσμον ἐκπρεπὲς ἔχειν ἢ περιττὸν ἢ ζηλωτὸν ἐδόκει περικείμενον, ὡς δὴ θέαμα σεμνότατον ὀφθείη καὶ ποικιλώτατον.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.8: … πάλιν κἀνταῦθα τὰ περὶ τῶν βασιλειῶν ὁ προφήτης διδάσκεται. καὶ κριῷ μὲν ἀπεικάσθη ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Περσῶν διὰ τὸν περικείμένον αὐτὴ πλοῦτον, ἑστὼς δ’ ἦν ὁ κριὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ Οὐβὰλ ἤγουν ἐπὶ τῆς πύλης τῶν Σούσων· αὕτη γάρ ἦν ἡ πόλις μητρόπολι …

All forms of περίκειμαι (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.