perlegerant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →perlego, perlegere, perlegi, perlectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
read over/through (silent/aloud); scan, survey, run one's eyes over; recount;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...temere credam Chrysalo; verum lubet etiam mi has perlegere denuo: aequomst tabellis consignatis credere.— IV.ix CHRYSALVS Atridae..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...caligine mundi. postquam rite diu partiti sidera, cunctas perlegere animis oculisque sequacibus auras, tunc Amythaonius longo post tempore..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...auro, bis patriae cecidere manus. quin protinus omnia perlegerent oculis, ni iam praemissus Achates adforet atque una Phoebi..."