περιστάντων (peristanton)

περιστάντων is an Ancient Greek form of περιίστημι, meaning “stand around, surround”. It is the aorist active participle genitive plural masculine.

It can also be a form of περιστάζομαι, “sprinkle all round”.

It can also be a form of περιστάζω, “sprinkle all round”.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.14: … οὺς περιισταμένους, 〈ὥστε δεδιότασ〉 τὸ διδόναι μὴ ἐνοχλεῖν, καθά φησι Κλεάνθης ἐν τῷ Περὶ χαλκοῦ· πλειόνων τε περιστάντων αὐτόν, δείξας ἐν τῇ στοᾷ κατʼ ἄκρου τὸ ξύλινον περιφερὲς τοῦ βωμοῦ ἔφη, τοῦτό ποτʼ ἐν μέσῳ ἔκειτο, διὰ δὲ τὸ …

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.