periergia (perierjia)

[ML.: see periergy.] In rhet., same as periergy. Another point of surplusage lieth not so much in super flu i tie of your words as of your trauaile to describe the matter which yee take in hand, and that ye ouer-labour your selfe in your bus in e e. And therefore the Greekes call it Periergia , we call it ouer-labour. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 216.