περιφορ-ά,ἡ,
A. carrying round, of dishes at table : hence,meats carried round, courseat dinner, X. Cyr. 2.2.4 , Heraclid. Tarent. ap. Ath. 3.12o c (pl.), cf. 7.275b .
II. (from Pass. )going round, circularorrotatory motion, revolution, of a wheel, E. Ba. 1067 ; of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Ar. Nu. 172 , X. Mem. 4.7.5 , Pl. Phdr. 247c , Lg. 898c , Arist. Mete. 341a2 , Cael. 291a35 , Epicur. Nat. 11.10 ,al.;αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν π. J. AJ 1.1.1 , cf. Pl. R. 546a , Plt. 271a , 274e .
2. revolving vaultof heaven, Id. R. 616c , Tht. 153d ;ἡ ὕπερθε π.the heavens, Critias 25.31
D.
3. metaph., in pl.,twists, circumvolutions, Eub. 73 .
4. ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖςinsocial intercourse, Plu. Per. 5 .
5. error, v.l. for παραφορά in LXX Ec. 2.12 , 7.26(25) .
III. storyortierof a funeral pile, D.S. 17.115 .
IV. turntable(?), PTeb. 12.17
(ii B.C.).