I.a going across, going over, passing over, passage (rare but class.).
I. Lit.: “Gallorum,” Cic. Pis. 33, 81: tua in Germaniam, Mamert. Pan. ap. Maxim. 7, 2; over the sea, Gell. 10, 26, 6.—
II. Trop.
A. In rhet., i. q. the Gr. ὑπέρβατον, transposition: “transgressio est, quae verborum perturbat ordinem,” Auct. Her. 4, 32, 44: “transgressio concinna verborum,” Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 207; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 34; 9, 4, 28; 8, 6, 66.—*
B. A transition in speaking, Quint. 4, 1, 78. —
C. A transgression of the law, Aug. Quaest. in Exod. n. 108; Ambros. in Luc. 7, § 164.
