peri
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1. peri - Noun
2. Peri - Proper noun
Meaning
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
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One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Among the named works attributed to "Zoroaster" is a treatise On Nature (Peri physeos), which appears to have originally constituted four volumes (i.e. papyrus rolls).
At the end of his career, Hipparchus wrote a book called Peri eniausíou megéthous ("On the Length of the Year") about his results.
Although his work peri physeos is a poem, it may be viewed as an epistemological essay, an essay on method in natural science.