Note 698 — PHOTIUS BIBLIOTHECA OR MYRIOBIBLON[6] (continued 5)
John Henry Freese translation
The word used (περιβολή) expresses the combination in a single period of a variety of diction, sentiments, and figures of speech. The Latin equivalent is circumducta or circumjecta oratio: cp. Quintilian, ix. 4, 124: cum sensus unus longiore ambitu circumducitur (“when a single thought is drawn out by a lengthy period”).