transcendo — Lewis & Short
transcendo or trans-scendo, di, sum, 3, v. a. and n.scando,
I to climb, pass, cross, or step over, to overstep, surmount.
I Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero, transgredior).
A Neutr.:
est periculum me ab asinis ad boves transcendere,Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 58:
transcendere in hostium naves,Caes. B. G. 3, 15; id. B. C. 1, 58:
in Italiam (Hasdrubal),Liv. 28, 42, 14:
in fines hostium,id. 3, 8, 4:
in Latinum agrum,id. 4, 53, 2:
in Sedetanum agrum,id. 28, 31, 7; cf.: per Vescinos in Campaniam Falernumque agrum, id. 10, 20, 1; 31, 29, 6; 36, 24, 4.—
B Act.: fossam transire et maceriam transcendere conantur. Caes. B. G. 7, 70:
fossas,id. B. C. 3, 46:
valles,id. ib. 1, 68:
Caucasum,Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22:
Alpes,id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; Liv. 5, 34, 8; 5, 35, 1:
Apenninum,id. 22, 1, 1:
Taurum,Just. 11, 8, 2:
flumen exercitu,Tac. A. 4, 44:
limen,Prop. 1, 14, 19 et saep.—
II Trop., to pass over, to overstep, surpass, exceed, transcend (rare; not in Cic.).
A Neutr.:
ad leviora,to pass over, make a transition, Quint. 7, 1, 21:
ad majora,Vell. 2, 130, 3: ex minore aetate in majorem, Hyg. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 15. — Absol.:
ut non abrupte cadere in narrationem, ita non obscure transcendere,Quint. 4, 1, 79. —
B Act.:
transcendere fines Juris,to orerstep, transgress, Lucr. 3, 60:
transcendere ordinem aetatis, naturae, moris Macedonum, juris gentium,Liv. 40, 11, 7; cf. id. 40, 9, 8:
prohibita impune,Tac. A. 3, 54:
nec declinari transcendique posse agmina fati,Gell. 7 (6), 2, 5.—
2 To excel, exceed, surpass, transcend:
aetatem primae juventae,Col. 1, 8, 3:
at tu transcendes, Germanice, facta tuorum,Sil. 3, 607:
annos factis,id. 4, 428:
florentes annos viribus,id. 1, 226:
vota transcendi mea,Sen. Thyest. 912:
aliquem aetate,id. Troad. 702.