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περι-άπτω , fut. -ψω Lys.21.24, etc.:—
A.tie, fasten, hang about or upon, “γυίοις περάπτων φάρμακα” Pi.P.3.52, cf. Call.Hec.1.1.1; “τὰ ἐρινεὰ πρὸς τὰς συκᾶς” Arist.HA557b29:—Med., put round oneself, wear, [χρυσὸν ἢ ἄργυρον] Pl.R.417a, cf. Plu.Per.12, etc.
2. metaph., “π. ὄλβον τινί” X.Cyr.1.5.9; ἀγαθὸν [τῇ πόλει] Id.Mem.2.6.13; “π. αὑτοῖς τὰ διὰ μέσης θεωρούμενα φυσιολογίας” Phld.Rh.1.208S.: mostly in bad sense, π. πήματα, τῆς πενίας πρᾶγμ᾽ αἴσχιόν τινι, attach to one, Simon.97(tm.), Ar.Pl.590; π. ὀνείδη τινί Lys.l.c., cf. Pl.Euthd.272c; “αἰσχύνην τῇ πόλει” Id.Ap.35a; π. ἀνελευθερίαν (sc. αὐτοῖς) X.Cyr.8.4.32; “ἀντὶ καλῆς [δόξης] αἰσχρὰν π. τῇ πόλει” D.20.10 (hence π. alone, defame, Vett.Val.285.32); τουτονὶ π. βίον (sc. ἡμῖν) imposed this life upon us, Athenio 1.7; also “σχῆμα π. τῷ πυρί” Arist. Cael.304a9; τινὰς αἰτίαις π. J.AJ12.5.5; “π. τινὰ ψόγῳ” LXX 3 Ma.3.7.
II. light a fire all round, Phalar.Ep.122.2 codd.; “π. πῦρ” Ev.Luc.22.55.
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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