περι-κλάω,
twist round, bend, [τὴν φλόγα] [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 53; τοὺς ἀγκῶνας LXX.4Mac.10.6 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]: but usually break off, [τὰς δρῦς] [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 9.18 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τῷ κράνει π. τὸ ξίφος break it round the helmet, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 14 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, περικεκλασμέναι ῥάβδοι [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.10; περικλασθήσονται κλῶνες LXX.Wis.4.5; κολοσσὸς -κλασθεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.25 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; περικλώμενα τοῖς αὑτῶν βρίθεσι bent and broken by.., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 12 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; περικεκλασμένον σχῆμα bent and bowed down, [[ [prev. author] 2.878c ] Refs]; of persons, τοῖς σώμασι -κλώμενοι [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 813a16, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.48 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but also, arched, θώραξ [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).420; περικλώμενος κλύδων 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.9.6. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 in Optics, refract, [[ 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 2.1 (_passive_). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II wheel an army round to the right or left, ἐπὶ δόρυ or ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδα [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.12.4, compare 11.23.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also π. τὸν Τίβεριν ἐπὶ τὸ Κίρκαιον divert it, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 58. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 passive, of missiles, ricochet, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 79.19. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]