Lexicographical Neighbors of Periboli
Literary usage of Periboli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Even in Pliny's time the sacred periboli ai Olympia and Delphi still contained
fully 3000 statues each (//. Ar. xxxiv. § 30) : and at the time of Pausanias' ..."
2. Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans by William Martin Leake (1830)
"... in which the polygonal masonry was employed at a much later period, especially
in periboli and terrace- walls ; but I am inclined to think that, ..."
3. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant by Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1865)
"A temple perhaps stood here; and a little to the south of this church is a place
called periboli, planted with vines, where many pieces of ancient marble ..."
4. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ by Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan (1862)
"I advanced,accordingly, a few feet to the south of this ridge, but without meeting
with any trace of the foundations of the periboli(x wall. ..."
5. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1828)
"... however, at Balbec and Palmyra, are found most sumptuous examplesof periboli,
with Propylaea, decorating the approaches of the great Temples of the Sun ..."
Other Resources:
