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per-lĕgo (pellĕgo , Cic. Att. 13, 44, 2; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 108 al.; cf. Prisc. p. 571 P.), lēgi, lectum, 3, v. a.
I. In gen., to view all over, to examine thoroughly, scan, survey (only poet.): “omnia oculis,” Verg. A. 6, 33: “aliquid vultu,” Ov. H. 16, 11: “perlege dispositas generosa per atria ceras,” id. F. 1, 591; Stat. Th. 3, 499.—
II. In partic., to read through, read to the end (class.): “has (tabellas),” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 64: “tertium (librum) de naturā deorum,” Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8: “quando autem pelleget?” id. Att. 13, 44, 2: “litteras,” Caes. B. C. 1, 19: “(libros) praesta bis ne perlegant,” Plin. H. N. 1 praef. § “33: leges,” Juv. 14, 192: reliquum deincipe die perlecturus, App. Flor. n. 16.—Absol.: “sine perlegam,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 104.—
B. Transf., to read any thing through, read aloud: “leges perlege,” Plaut. As. 4, 1, 2: “senatum,” to read over the names of all the senators, Liv. 38, 28: “historiam,” Suet. Claud. 41.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.44.2
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 4.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.33
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 41
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.19
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.9
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 28
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.5
    • Statius, Thebias, 3
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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