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περιπάτους (peripatous)

περιπάτους is an Ancient Greek form of περιπατέω, meaning “walk about”. It is the present active participle nominative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of περίπατος, “walk; covered walk; Peripatos”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.27: Ἄλεξις Μεροπίδι· εἰς καιρὸν ἥκεις· ὡς ἔγωγʼ ἀπορουμένη ἄνω κάτω τε περιπατοῦσʼ ὥσπερ Πλάτων σοφὸν οὐδὲν εὕρηκʼ, ἀλλὰ κοπιῶ τὰ σκέλη. καὶ ἐν Ἀγκυλίωνι· λέγεις περὶ ὧν οὐκ οἶσθα· συγγενοῦ τρ …

Plutarch, Publicola 8.3: … πλεῖστα τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ καταφερομένων. τοῦτο νῦν νῆσός ἐστιν ἱερὰ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν, ἔχει δὲ ναοὺς θεῶν καὶ περιπάτους, καλεῖται δὲ φωνῇ τῇ Λατίνων Μέση δυεῖν γεφυρῶν.

All forms of περιπατέω (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.