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περίβολος , ον, (περιβάλλω)
A.compassing, encircling, “στέφεα” E.IA 1477 (lyr.) ; “κάνναι” Pherecr.63.
II. as Subst. περίβολος, ὁ, = περιβολή, ἐχίδνης περίβολοι spires or coils of a serpent, E.Ion993: in pl., π. λάϊνοι, of a tomb, Id.Tr.1141 : sg., enclosing wall, Hdt.1.181 ; of a town wall, Th.1.89 ; ἐν οἰκείῳ π. in a cage of his own, Pl.Tht.197c ; of the body as the case of the soul, Id.Cra.400c ; “περίβολοι οἰκήσεων” Id.R.548a ; wall of the heart, Hp.Cord.4.
2. area enclosed, enclosure, “π. νεωρίων” E.Hel.1530 ; ὁ τῆς πόλεως π. Pl.Lg.759a ; “ἀμπελώνων” PGrenf.2.28.13 (ii B.C.); of a temple, precinct, “π. ἱεροῦ” LXX Si. 50.2, cf. 2 Ma.6.4, 4 Ma.4.11, J.AJ15.11.5, Porph.Abst.2.54 ; ὁ τῶν Ὡρῶν π. BMus.Inscr.1044 (Attaleia): metaph., “πρόθυρα καὶ περιβόλους καὶ αὐλὰς τῇ ἀρχῇ περιέθηκεν” Plu.Sol.32.
III. neut., περίβολα πυρὶ φλεγόμενα fire-balls, Tim.Pers.27.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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