1. to be around a place, with dative, (Thucydides); τὰ περιόντα circumstances , (Demosthenes Orator) 2. to be better than, superior to another, surpass, excel , with genitive, (Iliad by Homer); περίεσσι γυναικῶν εἶδός τε μέγεθός τε (Odyssey by Homer); οἳ περὶ μὲν βουλὴν Δαναῶν περὶ δd ἐστὲ μάχεσθαι λπαρr εθυαλσs μάχην)) (Iliad by Homer); with dative rei, σοφίᾳ π. τῶν Ἑλλήνων (Plato Philosophus): absolute to be superior , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.; ἐκ περιόντος at an advantage , (Thucydides) 3. to overlive, outlive , τινι (Herdotus Historicus): absolute to survive, remain alive , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.:—;of things, to be extant, to be in existence , (Herdotus Historicus) 4. to be over and above, to remain in hand , of property, money, etc., (Thucydides); οἰόμενοι περιεῖναι χρήματά τῳ imagining that any one has a balance in his hands, (Demosthenes Orator) 5. to be a result or consequence , περίεστιν ὑμῖν ἐκ τούτων what you have got by all this is . ., (Demosthenes Orator); τοσοῦτον ὑμῖν περίεστιν τοῦ πρὸς ἐμὲ μίσους you have so much hatred against me left , Philipp. quoted in (Demosthenes Orator); with infinitive, περίεστι ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς ἐρίζειν it remains for you to quarrel with them, (Demosthenes Orator) (ML)