verb transitive

pĕr-ā^gro

2nd PP pĕr-ā^grāre · 3rd PP pĕr-ā^grāvi · 4th PP pĕrātum · conj. 1st

to wander; travel through; over

part. peragratus, in the dep. signif.; v. infra), v. a. per and ager, to wander or travel through or over, to go or pass through, traverse, etc. (class.; cf. percurro).

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Lit.: provincias, Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258.—Of bees: saltus silvasque, Verg. G. 4, 53: loca avia, Lucr. 1, 926: in peragrandā Aegypto, Suet. Aug. 93: peragratis partibus, Vulg. Act. 19, 1.—Of sailing: litora Liburnicis, Suet. Calig. 37: eques Romanus qui et commercia ea et litora peragravit, Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45; Flor. 2, 7, 6; Just. 12, 10, 1.—

Dep. only in part.: peragratus omnes Germaniae partes, etc., Vell. 2, 97, 4.— •

Dep. only in part.: peragratus omnes Germaniae partes, etc., Vell. 2, 97, 4.—

to go through; traverse; to spread through; to search through figuratively ••

Trop., to go through, traverse, to spread through; to search through, penetrate: omne immensum peragravit mente animoque, Lucr. 1, 74: eloquentia omnes peragravit insulas, Cic. Brut. 13, 51: cujus res gestae omnes gentes terrā marique peragrassent, id. Balb. 6, 16; id. Mil. 35, 98; id. Cael. 22, 53.—Rarely with per: orator ita peragrat per animos hominum, ut, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 222: gula peragrans, a roving appetite, Gell. 7, 16, 6.—Hence, * pĕrăgranter, adv., in roving about, Amm. 14, 1, 6.

Perseus ID: n34624 Key: peragro