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περίεργος , ον,
A.taking needless trouble, Lys.12.35; “γραμματικῶν π. γένη” AP11.322 (Antiphan.). Adv.-γως Hp.Decent.7.
2. officious, meddlesome, Isoc.5.98, X.Mem.1.3.1, Men.Sam.85; π. εἰμι I am a busy-body, Id.Epit.45; περίεργα βλέπειν look curiously at, c. acc., AP 12.175 (Strat.), cf. Hdn.5.3.8 (Comp.).
3. of an inquiring mind, Arist.Resp.480b27; inquisitive, curious, Hdn.4.12.3 (Sup.); “π. παιδία” Gal.6.635; τὸ π. Luc.Alex.4. Adv.-γως“, ἔχειν” Astramps.Orac.p.1 H.: Comp. -ότερον“, ἔχειν πρός τινα” Jul.Or.4.130d.
II. Pass., overwrought, elaborate, ὀδμή (perfume) Hp.Praec.10; “φορήματα” Ar.Fr. 321; “ζωγράφημα” Plu.2.64a; τὸ τῆς κόμης π. Luc.Nigr.13; esp. of language or style, ὀνόματα, λόγοι, Aeschin.3.229, D.H.Lys.14; “τὸ π. Θουκυδίδου” Id.Vett.Cens.3.2 : Comp., -“οτέρα λέξις” Id.Is.3. Adv. “-γως” Antyll. ap. Orib.9.14.7 : Comp. “-ότερον, ἠσκημένος τὴν κόμην” Arr.Epict.3.1.1; “ἐξορχεῖσθαι” Hdn.5.5.3.
2. superfluous, “π. καὶ μακρὰ λέγειν” Pl.Plt.286c; ὅπως εἴ τις π. ἀφαιρεθῇ (sc. δαπάνη) Arist. Rh.1359b27; “π. ἐστί τι” And.3.33, cf. Is.1.31; “π. [ἐστι] τὸ λέγειν” Arist.Pol.1315a40, cf. Rh.1369a8; futile, useless, “πόλεμος” Isoc.15.117. Adv. “-γως” Timocl.13.4, etc.
3. curious, superstitious, “ἱερουργίαι” Plu.Alex.2; τὰ π. curious arts, magic, Act.Ap.19.19.
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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