περικαθ-ίζω,
cause to sit around or over, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.51. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 π. στρατὸν τῇ πόλει invest a city, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.14.1, compare 13.5.5. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II intransitive, sit round, τῇ πυρᾷ [[ 2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 27.6, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 3.5, 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Eup.” 4.113.4] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: but usually besiege, φρούριον Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 11 B 10 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὸ τεῖχος variant in [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.103; π. κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἰβηρική” 53 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; περὶ or ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν, [[ LXX.1Mac.11.61, LXX.4Ki.6.24: _absolutely_, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.8.1, +others ] LXX+1st c.AD+]
__III middle, invest, περικαθεζόμενοι (aorist participle) τὸ τεῖχος [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.102; τὴν πόλιν περικαθισάμενος 1st c.AD: Memnon Historicus 45.1: _intransitive_] Refs 4th c.BC+] in passive form, περικαθεσθέντες having sat down round about, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.23, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 3.232: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]present infinitive περικαθέζεσθαι, = obsidere, [[“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”] Refs]