περίεργος, ον,
taking needless trouble, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.35; γραμματικῶν π. γένη “Anthologia Graeca” 11.322 (1st c.AD: Antiphanes Macedo Epigrammaticus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -γως [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 officious, meddlesome, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.98, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 85 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. εἰμι I am a busy-body, [[ [prev. author] “Epit.” 45 ] Refs]; περίεργα βλέπειν look curiously at, with accusative, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 12.175 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.3.8 (_comparative_). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 of an inquiring mind, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Respiratione” 480b27 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; inquisitive, curious, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 4.12.3 (_superlative_)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. παιδία [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.635 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὸ π. [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. adverb -γως, ἔχειν [[ 2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” p.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] H.: comparative -ότερον, ἔχειν πρός τινα [[ 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 4.130d. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II passive, overwrought, elaborate, ὀδμή (perfume) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 10; φορήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 321; ζωγράφημα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.64a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ τῆς κόμης π. [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 13 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; especially of language or style, ὀνόματα, λόγοι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.229, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 14; τὸ π. Θουκυδίδου [prev. author] “Vett.Cens.” 3.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: comparative, - οτέρα λέξις [[ [prev. author] “Is.” 3 ] Refs]. adverb -γως[[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 9.14.7 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: comparative -ότερον, ἠσκημένος τὴν κόμην [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.1.1; ἐξορχεῖσθαι 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.5.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]