I.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).
I. 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.—
II. 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.
