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periodus

periodus · f

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

pĕrĭŏdus — Lewis & Short

pĕrĭŏdus (pĕrĭhŏdus, i, f., = peri/odos.

Fest. p. 217 Müll.),

I A complete sentence, a period: in toto circuitu illo orationis, quem Graeci peri/odon, nos tum ambitum, tum circuitum, tum comprehensionem, aut continuationem, aut circumscriptionem dicimus, Cic. Or. 61, 204; cf. id. Brut. 8, 34; 44, 162; Quint. 9, 4, 14; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 4.—

II The circuit of the four Grecian games (the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympian): in gymnicis certaminibus periodon vicisse dicitur, qui Pythia, Isthmia, Nemea, Olympia vicit, a circumitu eorum spectaculorum, Fest. p. 217 Müll.

In the wild

periodus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.124
perihodos Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.20.4
periodo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.43
periodo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.124
periodos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.128
periodos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.14

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