The corpus record — Latin

per-meo

per-meo · v. a

to go

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-mĕo — Lewis & Short

per-mĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to go or pass through, to cross, traverse.

I Lit.: Euphrates mediam Babylonem permeans, Plin. 5, 26, 21, § 90: Alpheus in eā insulā sub ima maria permeat, id. 31, 5, 30, § 55: in quos (barbaros) saxa et hastae longius permeabant, quam ut contrario sagittarum icto adaequarentur, traversed too much space, i. e. went too far in reaching them, etc., Tac. A. 15, 9: Ister permeat orbem, Luc. 2, 418: dum littera nostra Tot maria ac terras permeat, Ov. P. 4, 11, 16: permeato amne, Amm. 21, 13, 2.—Impers. pass.: iter, quo ab usque Pontico mari in Galliam permeatur, Aur. Vict. Caes. 13.—

B Transf., to go forward, go on: naviter et sine ullis concessationibus, Col. 11, 1, 16.—

II Trop., to penetrate, pervade: quod quaedam animalis intellegentia per omnia ea permeet et transeat, Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 119.

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