περι-ξύω,
scrape all round, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.130 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; scrape off or away, φλοιόν [[ LXX.Wis.13.11, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.653] LXX+2nd c.AD+]; nibble at, ἄκροισι.. στομάτεσσι δαῖτα [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.525 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—middle, scrape oneself, [[ Diocl.fragment 141, 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Topicorum libros octo commentaria - pars” 455.25 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.192 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περιξυομένη γῆ drilled out by a borer, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 149.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]