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περιγίγνομαι , Ion. and later περιβωμ-γίνομαι [γι_], fut.
A.“-γενήσομαι” Th.4.27, etc.: aor. “-εγενόμην” Hdt.1.122, etc.: pf. -γέγονα ib.82, etc.; “-γεγένημαι” Th.1.69, etc.:—to be superior to others, prevail over, overcome : Constr. in full, c. gen. pers. et dat. rei, “μήτι δ᾽ ἡνίοχος περιγίγνεται ἡνιόχοιο” 11.23.318; “ὅσσον περιγιγνόμεθ᾽ ἄλλων πύξ τε παλαισμοσύνῃ τε” Od.8.102, cf. 252 ; πολυτροπίῃ τινὸς π. Hdt.2.121.έ, cf. Th.1.55, Pl.Ap.22c ; “τάχει τοσοῦτον π. τινός” X.Cyr.3.1.19 ; “τῶν χρημάτων τῶν ἐν Δελφοῖς π. ταῖς ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων δαπάναις” Isoc.5.54 : c.acc. rei, “δσα . . περιγένοιντο ἐμοῦ” D.18.236 ; τὰ Ὀλύμπια π. Plu.2.242b : c. gen. pers. only, Hdt.1.207, Ar.V.604 ; “π. καὶ πλεονεκτεῖν τῶν ἐχθρῶν” Pl. R.362b, etc.: c. acc. pers. (in an anacoluthon), κατὰ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν Ἕλληνας ὁμοφρονέοντας χαλεπὰ εἶναι π. Hdt.9.2 : abs., to be superior, prevail, Id.1.214, Th.4.27, etc.; π. τῇ συμβολῇ, τῷ πλῷ, Hdt.6.109, Th.8.104 ; π. πρός τινας, πρὸς τὰ ἀντιτεταγμένα, Id.1.69,5.111.
2. of things, ἤν τι περιγίγνηται αὐτοῖς τοῦ πολέμου if they gain any advantage in the war, Id.6.8 ; π. ὑμῖν πλῆθος νεῶν you have a superiority in number of ships, Id.2.87 ; π. ἡμῖν μὴ προκάμνειν we have the advantage in not . . , ib.39.
II. live over, survive, escape, Hdt.1.82,122, Th.4.27, etc.; οἱ περιγενόμενοι the survivors, Hdt.5.64, etc.: c. gen. rei, περιεγένετο τούτον τοῦ πάθεος he survived, escaped from this disaster, ib.46 ; τῆς δίκης π. Pl.Lg.905a ; ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων π. Th.2.49.
2. of things, remain over and above, opp. ἐπιλείπειν, Ar.Pl.554, cf. Lys. 30.20 ; “περιγενόμενον ἐκ τοῦ προτέρου ἐνιαυτοῦ” IG12.352.10 ; τάλαντα ἃ περιεγένοντο τῶν φόρων which remained from the tribute, the surplus, X.HG2.3.8 ; “τὸ περιγιγνόμενον τῶν πόρων ἀργύριον” Isoc.8.82, cf. Pl. Lg.742b, PRev.Laws 19.8(iii B.C.), etc.; τὰ περιγινόμενα the revenues, Arr.An.7.17.4.
3. of things, to be left over : hence, to be a result or consequence, ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων κινδύνων καὶ πόλει καὶ ἰδιώτῃ μέγισται τιμαὶ π. Th.1.144 ; “ἀμαχητὶ π. τινί τι” Id.4.73 ; ἡ ἠθικὴ ἐξ ἔθους π. Arist. EN1103a17 ; τί αὐτῷ περιγέγονεν ἐκ τῆς φιλοσοφίας ; D.L.2.68 ; “περιεγένετο ὥστε καλῶς ἔχειν” X.An.5.8.26 ; “τούτου μόνου περιγίγνεσθαι μέλλοντος, παθεῖν τι κακόν” D.3.12 ; ἐκ τούτων περιγίγνεταί τι the upshot of the matter is . . , Id.8.53 ; τοῖς μὲν . . πεισθεῖσιν ἡ σωτηρία περιεγένετο to those who complied safety was the result, Id.18.80 ; περίεστι δέ μοι τοιαῦτα οἷα τοῖς κακόν τι νοοῦσιν ὑμῖν περιγένοιτο that is what I have got by the business, and I hope that your enemies may get the like , Id.Ep.3.36 ; ἀηδὴς δόξα τῇ πόλει παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς π. Id.Prooem. 23 ; “ἡ ἐκ τῆς πραγματικῆς ἱστορίας περιγινομένη ἐμπειρία” Plb.1.35.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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