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διαπεράω ,
A.go over or across, “ῥοάς” E.Tr.1151; “πελάγη” Isoc.1.19; “δ. ἐπ᾽ οἶδμα” E.IT395 (lyr.); δ. πόλιν pass through it, Ar.Av.1264; “δ. Ἑλλάδα” E.Supp.117; “δ. εἰς Ἰταλίαν” Arist.Fr.485; of Time, δ. τὸν βίον pass through life, X.Oec.11.7.
b. διαπερᾶν Μολοσσίαν reign through all Molossia, E.Andr.1248 codd.
2. pass through, pierce, “κνήμην διεπέρασεν Ἀργεῖον δόρυ” Id.Ph.1394; traverse, ἧπαρ, of a vein, Aret. SA2.8 (cf. διαπεραίνω).
3. οἶσθα διαπερῶν by traversing, i.e. by experience, A.Th.994 (lyr.), cf. Sch.
II. reach, arrive at a place, PFlor.247.9 (iii A.D.).
III. trans., carry over, “ὕδωρ ποταμοῦ σῶμα δ.” Eub.151, cf. Luc.DMort.20.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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