I.to go or come through, to pass or press through, to spread through (class.; syn. penetro).
I. Lit., constr. with acc. alone, or with per, ad, or in, and absol.: pervade polum, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 13 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 190 Rib.): “incendium per agros pervasit,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 66: “per omnis partis provinciae te tamquam aliquam calamitosam pestem tempestatemque pervasisse,” id. ib. 2, 1, 38, § “96: ne cum in Siciliā quidem fuit ... pars ejus belli in Italiam ulla pervasit,” id. ib. 2, 5, 2, § “6: per aequa et iniqua loca pervadunt,” Liv. 25, 14, 9: “pervadere usque ad vallum,” id. 26, 5; 37, 25: “pars magna equitum ad terga pugnantium pervasit,” id. 42, 7, 7: “Thessaliam cum exercitu pervadit, id, 42, 13, 8: venenum ita cunctos ejus artus pervasit, ut, etc.,” Tac. A. 13, 16: “impetu equi pervasit,” id. ib. 2, 17.—In pass.: “pervasā urbe,” Amm. 24, 2, 13: “pervasis regionibus,” id. 31, 3, 1; Sedul. 3, 309.—
B. Transf., to go, come, arrive anywhere: “ut quaedam calamitas pervadere videretur,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 44: “in nares,” id. N. D. 2, 57, 145: “ad castra,” Liv. 7, 36.—
II. Trop.
A. To spread through, penetrate, pervade: “opinio, quae per animos gentium barbararum pervaserat,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23: “quo non illius diei fama pervaserit,” id. ib. 15, 44: “quas oras quasi morbus quidam illius furoris pervaserat,” id. Sull. 19, 53.—With acc.: “cum fama ea urbem atque forum pervasisset,” Liv. 5, 7, 6: “murmur totam contionem pervasit,” id. 26, 15, 9; 2, 23, 7: “pervasit jam multos ista persuasio, ut, etc.,” Quint. 8, 2, 21: “capesse, per deos, rem publicam, et omnia aspera pervade,” to break through, overcome, Sall. Or. ad Caes. Rep. Ord. 1, 6: “pallor ora,” Sil. 7, 427: “magnam Asiae partem cis Euphraten tanti mali fama pervaserat,” Curt. 10, 5, 18; cf.: “ut quisque proximus ab oppresso sit, per omnis velut continens incendium pervasurum,” Liv. 37, 25, 6: “victoriae Romanae fama cum pervasisset in Asiam,” id. 45, 10, 1: “terror in totam penitus aciem pervasit,” id. 8, 9, 11: “ex contagione, velut tabes, in Perrhaebiam quoque id pervaserat malum (i. e. seditiones),” id. 42, 5, 7. —
B. To arrive at, reach a place: “fines,” Lucr. 1, 556: “locus, quo non nostrorum hominum libido pervaserit,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 307.
