περιφορ-ά, ἡ,
carrying round, of dishes at table: hence, meats carried round, course at dinner, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Heraclid.Tarentum dialect cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.12o c (_plural_), compare 7.275b. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II (from passive) going round, circular or rotatory motion, revolution, of a wheel, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1067 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the heavens and heavenly bodies, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 172, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.7.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247c, “Lg.” 898c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 341a2, “Cael.” 291a35, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 11.10, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν π. [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 1.1.1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 546a, “Plt.” 271a, 274e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 revolving vault of heaven, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 616c, “Tht.” 153d ] Refs]; ἡ ὕπερθε π. the heavens, [[ 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 25.31 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 metaphorically, in plural, twists, circumvolutions, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 73. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.4 ἐν ταῖς περιφοραῖς in social intercourse, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 5. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]