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ἐπιπορ-εύομαι ,
A.travel, ψυχῆς πείρατα οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο πᾶσαν “-όμενος ὁδόν” Heraclit.45; march, Plb.1.12.4, al.: c.acc., τὴν χώραν traverse, ib.30.14: c.dat., “τοῖς ἀγροῖς” Plu.Lyc.28 (s.v.l.); “ἐπὶ τοὺς τόπους” PLille 3.78 (iii B.C.).
2.. = ἐπιπάρειμι (B) 4, of a general, -όμενος “τὰ συστήματα παρεκάλει” Plb.11.12.1, cf. 15.10.1, Plu.Tim.12; also ἐ. ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθος come before the assembly, Plb.4.9.2; “πρός τινα” Ev.Luc. 8.4: metaph., go or run through, τῇ διανοίᾳ, τῇ ὄψει, Plu.2.470a.
3.. Astron., reach, “τινὶ τῶν κέντρων” Ptol.Tetr.99: c.acc., ἡλίου τὸν Κριὸν ἐ. begins to traverse the Ram, Jul.Or.5.172c.
4.. ἐ. τὸν ἱστόν, = ἐποίχομαι (q.v.), Ephor.5J.
5.. take legal proceedings against a person, PHib.1.96.10 (iii B.C.), etc.
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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    • New Testament, Luke, 8.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.12.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.10.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.12.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.9.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 30.14
    • Plutarch, Timoleon, 12
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 28
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 99
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