Lewis Short
pĕrĭŏdus | pĕrĭhŏdus (noun F) = περίοδος: (, Fest. p. 217 Müll.), , , = .
* A complete sentence, a period: in toto circuitu illo orationis, quem Graeci περίοδον, nos tum ambitum, tum circuitum, tum comprehensionem, aut continuationem, aut circumscriptionem dicimus, Cic. Or. 61, 204; cf. id. Brut. 8, 34; 44, 162; Quint. 9, 4, 14; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 4.
* The circuit of the four Grecian games (the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympian): in gymnicis certaminibus periodon vicisse dicitur, qui Pythia, Isthmia, Nemea, Olympia vicit, a circumitu eorum spectaculorum,Fest. p. 217 Müll.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary