peragro

pĕr-ā̆gro, āvi, ātum, 1 ( part. peragratus, in the dep. signif.; v. infra), v. a. [per and ager], to wander or travel through or over, to go or pass through, traverse, etc. (class.; cf. percurro).

I.

Lit.:

provincias,

Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258.—Of bees:

saltus silvasque,

Verg. G. 4, 53:

loca avia,

Lucr. 1, 926:

in peragrandā Aegypto,

Suet. Aug. 93:

peragratis partibus,

Vulg. Act. 19, 1.—Of sailing:

litora Liburnicis,

Suet. Calig. 37:

eques Romanus qui et commercia ea et litora peragravit,

Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45; Flor. 2, 7, 6; Just. 12, 10, 1.—

(β).

Dep. only in part.:

peragratus omnes Germaniae partes, etc.,

Vell. 2, 97, 4.—

II.

Trop., to go through, traverse, to spread through; to search through, penetrate:

omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,

Lucr. 1, 74:

eloquentia omnes peragravit insulas,

Cic. Brut. 13, 51:

cujus res gestae omnes gentes terrā marique peragrassent,

id. Balb. 6, 16; id. Mil. 35, 98; id. Cael. 22, 53.—Rarely with per:

orator ita peragrat per animos hominum, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 222:

gula peragrans,

a roving appetite, Gell. 7, 16, 6.—Hence, * pĕrăgranter, adv., in roving about, Amm. 14, 1, 6.