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περάω (A), late Ep. part.
A.“περόων” IG12(8).441.3 (Thasos), Epigr.Gr. 1068.8 (Syria); Ep. inf. “περάαν” Od.5.174: Ion.impf. περάασκε ib.480: fut. περάσω [α_], Ion. and Ep. “περήσω” Il.5.646; inf. “περησέμεναι” 12.200: aor. ἐπέρα_σα, Ion. and Ep. “ἐπέρησα, πέρησα” Od.24.118 (ἐπέρασσα f.l. in 5.409, late opt. περάσειας [α^] D.P.608); Aeol. “ἐπέραισα” Alc. Supp.7.8: pf. “πεπέρα_κα” A.Pers.65 (lyr.), Eup.192 :—drive right through, “λευκοὺς δ᾽ ἐπέρησεν ὀδόντας” Il.5.291.
2. more freq. pass right across or through a space, traverse, freq. of water, θάλασσαν, πόντον, Od.6.272, 24.118; “λαῖτμα θαλάσσης” 5.174; “ὕδωρ” Hes.Op. 738 ; Ἀχέροντα Alc.l. c.; “ἅλα” Pi.N.3.21 ; “Τάναϊν” Hdt.4.115 ; πόντου φλοῖσβον, [ποταμόν], A.Pr.792, 718; “πέλαγος Αἰγαῖον” S.Aj.461; also pass a barrier or boundary, “πύλας Ἀΐδαο περήσει” Il.5.646, cf. Thgn. 427; [τάφρος] ἀργαλέη περάαν hard to pass, Il.12.63, cf. 53,al.; τὰς φυλακὰς π. pass the guards, secretly or by force, Hdt.3.72; “π. Τεύθραντος ἄστυ Μυσῶν” A.Supp.549 (lyr.); “γῆς ὁρίσματα” E.Rh.437: metaph., κίνδυνον π. pass through a danger, A.Ch.270; π. πλοῦς accomplish them, X.Oec.21.3 (s.v.l.); π. ὅρκον, prob. go beyond, transgress the oath, A.Eu.489 (sed leg. πορόντας).
3. less freq. of Time, pass through, complete, τέλος δωδεκάμηνον περᾶσαι an office of twelve months' duration, Pi.N.11.10; “τοῦ βίου τέρμα” S.OT1530; “τὴν τελευταίαν ἡμέραν” E.Andr.102; “οἱ τὴν ἡλικίαν πεπερακότες” X.Lac. 4.7.
II. intr., penetrate, pierce, of a pointed weapon, Il.21.594; of violent rain, “οὔτ᾽ ὄμβρος περάασκε διαμπερές” Od.5.480, cf. 19.442; διὰ κροτάφοιο through the temples, Il.4.502; ὀστέον εἴσω into the bone, ib.460; extend, reach to a place, οὐδαμοῖ π. X.Cyn.8.5.
2. pass, “δι᾽ Ὠκεανοῖο” Od.10.508; διὰ (or διὲκ）“ προθύροιο” h.Merc.271, 158; ὡς ὁπότ᾽ ὠκὺ νόημα διὰ στέρνοιο περήσῃ ib.43 ; ἐπὶ πόντον, ἐφ᾽ ὑγρήν, Il.2.613, Od.4.709; διὰ πόρον across the strait, A.Pers.501; διὰ Κυανέας ἀκτάς through the Symplegades, E.Andr.864 (lyr.); “διὰ ῥοάς” Id.Rh.919; “ἐπ᾽ οἶδμα” Id.IT417 (lyr.); “ὑπ᾽ οἴδμασιν” S.Ant.337 (lyr.); “μή σε λάθῃ . . ταύτῃ περῶν” Ar.Av.1195.
3. pass to or from a place, “εἰς Ἀΐδαο” Thgn.906; “ποτὶ Φᾶσιν” Pi.I.2.41; “εἰς χώραν” A.Pers. 65 (lyr.); “ἐξ ἐνέρων” Id.Pr.572 (lyr.); ἐκ δόμων, ἔξω δωμάτων, S.Ant. 386, OT531; “γῆς ἔξω” E.Med.272; “δόμων ἔσω” Id.Or.1572; ποῖ περῶ; Id.Ph.981 : c. acc. loci, π. Δελφούς ib.980; μέλαθρα, δόμους, ib.299 (lyr.), Hipp.782.
4. rarely of Time, διὰ γήρως π. X.Mem.2.1.31; εὐδαίμων π. live happy, Orac. ap. X.Cyr.7.2.20.
5. pass all bounds, S.OC155 (lyr.): c. gen., θυμοῦ π. in wrath, Id.OT674.
6. with instrument of motion in acc., “π. πόδα” E.Hec.53.
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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