The corpus record — Latin

pererro

pererro · v. a

to wander through

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pĕr-erro — Lewis & Short

pĕr-erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to wander through, to roam or ramble over (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: fallacem circum vespertinumque pererro Saepe forum, Hor. S. 1, 6, 113: locum, Verg. A. 5, 441: freta, Ov. H. 14, 103: saltus et fontes, Val. Fl. 3, 537: orbem, Col. praef. 1: cellas, Petr. 97: reges, to roam about from one king to another, Sen. Q. N. 3 praef. § 6.— Pass.: arva pererrantur Peligna, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 5: pererratus orbis, id. F. 1, 234; cf.: pererrato ponto, Verg. A. 2, 295.—

II Transf.: totumque pererrat Luminibus tacitis, surveys all over, Verg. A. 4, 363: sonus pererrat cornua, i. e. errat per tubam, Sil. 4, 174.

In the wild

pererrant Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.42
pererratis Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.357
pererras Ovid, Epistulae 14.103
pererrato Vergil, Aeneid 2.295
pererret Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.8
pererraturum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.53.8

6 of 79 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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