"[Them] you choose, having been encrusted by these phraselets, to rule over you."[1]
*peripefqei/s: tou/tois toi=s r(hmati/ois peripefqei\s a)/rxein ai(rh=| sautou=.
The headword (aorist passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of
peripe/ttw) is extracted from the quotation given.
LSJ s.v. notes that this verb, which literally means 'I bake a crust around', is in fact only attested in figurative contexts like the present one; cf.
pi 1245.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 668, but with its two halves here inverted.
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