πέριξ,
strengthened for περί, mostly Ionic dialect Prose and Trag. (in latter usually adverb):
__I preposition, round about, all round, with genitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.179, 2.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.12, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.51U., etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 rarely with dative, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 710. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3 commonly with accusative, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196, 3.158, 4.36, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly before its case, but also after,[[[prev. work] 52, 79, as also in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 368, uncertain in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 243. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II adverb round about, π. ὑπορύσσοντες τὸ τεῖχος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.115; π. λαβεῖν ἄνθρωπον to surround him, [prev. work] 87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κύκλῳ π. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 418, uncertain in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1301, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 266; [Ὠκεανὸς] π. γᾶν ἀμπέχει 2nd c.BC: Limenius Lyricus 10: _metaphorically_, πᾶν π. φρονοῦντες] Refs 5th c.BC+] circuitously, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 448 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: rare in Attic dialect Prose, π. πολιορκεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.90 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ π. τόπος, οἱ π., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 62e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.2, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.47U. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ π. χρόνος, i.e. all times save the present, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Interpretatione” 16b18; τὸ π. ὕδωρ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 26; later αἱ π. πόλεις NT.Act.5.16; αἱ π. κῶμαι “SIG” 880.44 (Pizus, 3rd c.AD). ] NT+4th c.BC+]