περάω
α-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
περάω
Structure:
περά
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to carry beyond seas for the purpose of selling, to export for sale, to sell men as slaves, to sell
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἡνίκ’ ἂν δ’ ἔξω περῶσιν οἱ ξένοι ‐ τί χρή με δρᾶν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, trochees27)
- οἱ μὲν γὰρ ζώοντεσ ἀεὶ παντοῖα περῶσιν ἐσ κακά, τοὶ δὲ κακῶν εὑρ͂ον ἄκοσ φθίμενοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 111 1:1)
- τοῖσ μὲν δὴ ἐπὶ τῶν διφθερῶν περῶσιν εὐμαρῆ γενέσθαι τὸν πόρον, τοὺσ δὲ ἐν τοῖσ πλοίοισ διαβάλλοντασ ἐποκειλάντων πολλῶν πλοίων ἐπὶ ταῖσ πέτραισ καὶ συναρ[ρ]αχθέντων οὐκ ὀλίγουσ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι διαφθαρῆναι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 20 9:1)
- τοῦ δὲ περίπλου τοῦδε τὸ μὲν Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγοσ διαπλέουσιν ἐπὶ τὰσ στήλασ τὰσ Ἡρακλείουσ, τὸν δ’ ἑσπέριον καὶ τὸν βόρειον ὠκεανὸν οὐ περῶσιν, ὅτι μὴ πορθμεύεσθαι μόνον ἐπὶ Βρεττανούσ, καὶ τοῦτσ ταῖσ ἀμπώτεσι τοῦ πελάγουσ συμφερόμενοι· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:3)
- ἀποκρουσθεῖσι δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐκεῖθεν, καὶ τὸν Βαῖτιν ποταμὸν περῶσιν, ὁ Καιπίων ἐπέκειτο, μέχρι κάμνων ὁ Τάνταλοσ αὑτόν τε καὶ τὴν στρατιὰν τῷ Καιπίωνι παρέδωκεν ὡσ ὑπηκόοισ χρῆσθαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 7:8)
Derived
- ἀποπεράω (to carry over)
- διαπεράω (to go over or across, to pass through, to reign through all)
- διεκπεράω (to pass out through, pass quite through, to cross over)
- εἰσπεράω (to pass over into)
- ἐκπεράω (to go out over, pass beyond, to go through)
- περάω (to drive right through, to pass across or through, to pass over)
- συνεκπεράω (to come out together)
