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|Definition=<span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>10.28</span>, <span class="bibl">Philol.1</span>, etc.; poet. πειραίνω <span class="bibl">Arat.24</span> : also impf. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ἐπείραινε <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>8(7).25</span> : fut. περᾰνῶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>563</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>672e</span>; Ion. -ανέω, 3sg.-εῖ, Hp.<span class="title">Hat.Puer.</span>15, <span class="bibl">Meliss.5</span>: aor. ἐπέρᾱνα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>22</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>207c</span>; Ion. aor. part. πειρήνας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>48</span>:—Med., pres., <span class="bibl">Th.7.43</span> : fut. <b class="b3">περᾰνοῦμαι</b> (δια-) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>53c</span> : aor. <b class="b3">ἐπερᾱνάμην</b> (δι-) <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>26</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>900b</span>:—Pass., fut. περανθήσομαι <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>4.12</span> (<b class="b3">περασθήσομαι</b> is corrupt in Crito ap.Stob.3.3.63): aor. ἐπεράνθην <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.2.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Grg.</span>501c</span>, etc.: pf. 3sg. πεπέρανται <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>502e</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>273a4</span> ; poet. πεπείρανται <span class="bibl">Od.12.37</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>581</span> ; imper. πεπεράνθω <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>736b</span> ; inf. -άνθαι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Grg.</span>472b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Sens.</span>445b23</span>, -άσθαι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Xen.</span>977b3</span> (s. v.l.) ; part. πεπερασμένος <span class="bibl">Zeno Eleat.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prm.</span>145a</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APo.</span> 82b32</span>, al.: (πέρας):—<b class="b2">bring to an end, finish, accomplish</b>, Hom. only in Pass. (v. infr.); π. ἄταν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>830</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">πρᾶγος π</b>. <b class="b2">rem transigere</b>, <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Aj.</span>22</span>; πρᾶγμα καὶ χρησμοὺς θεοῦ <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 1569</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐλπίδα, δόκησιν</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Andr.</span>1062</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Or.</span>636</span> ; <b class="b3">π. τινὰ πρὸς ἔς χατον πλόον</b> <b class="b2">bring</b> him <b class="b2">to the end of</b> his voyage, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>10.28</span> ; π. δίκας τινί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">I.</span>8(7).25</span>; without <b class="b3">δίκην</b>, <b class="b2">finish the business</b>, <span class="bibl">D.38.24</span> ; π. τὰ δέοντα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.5.38</span> ; <b class="b3">τὸ προσταχθέν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">5.3.50</span> ; ἐπέραινεν ἐφ' οἷς ἐμισθώθη <span class="bibl">D.18.149</span> ; π. ὁδόν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span> 403</span> ; <b class="b3">πολλήν</b> (sc. <b class="b3">θάλασσαν</b>) <span class="bibl">Arat.289</span>:—Pass., <b class="b2">to be brought to an end, finished</b>, πάντα πεπείρανται <span class="bibl">Od.12.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>581</span> ; περαίνεται δὴ τοὔργον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>57</span>, etc.; <b class="b2">to be fulfilled, accomplished</b>, <b class="b3">χρησμός, τὰ λόγια περαίνεται</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1703</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>799</span>; ἡ συμμαχία ἐπεραίνετο <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span> 7.4.3</span> ; <b class="b3">ἔργῳ π</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">An.</span>3.2.32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">limit</b>, <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">Comm.Math.</span>3</span> :— elsewh. Pass., <b class="b2">to be limited</b> or <b class="b2">finite</b>, τὸ ὅλον πεπεράνθαι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>207a16</span> ; <b class="b3">πεπέρανται [ὁ οὐρανός</b>] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cael.</span>273a4</span>; esp. in part. <b class="b3">πεπερασμένος</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἄπειρος, π. μέγεθος, χρόνος</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>266b22</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cael.</span>272a15</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> in speaking, <b class="b3">π. μῦθον, λόγον</b>, <b class="b2">proceed with</b> a discourse, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>1056</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span> 701</span> ; εἰπὲ καὶ π. πάντα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>699</span> ; π. ὅ τι λέγεις <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>648</span> : abs., <b class="b3">περὶ σωφροσύνης ἤδη . . περανῶ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">563</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ra.</span>1283</span> ; πέραιν' ὥσπερ ἤρξω <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>353b</span> ; <b class="b3">πέραινε· σωθείης δὲ</b> . . <span class="bibl">Men.65.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">recite from beginning to end</b>, ἰαμβεῖον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1170</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.19.245</span> ; τραγῳδίαν <span class="bibl">Antiph.1.6</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">85.4</span>; νόμον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>29d</span> ; <b class="b2">recount, relate</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>362</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>781</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> abs., <b class="b2">effect one's purpose</b>, esp. with a neg., <b class="b3">οὐδὲν π</b>. <b class="b2">come to</b> no <b class="b2">issue, make</b> no <b class="b2">progress</b>, περαίνει δ' οὐδὲν ἡ προθυμία <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>589</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Th.6.86</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.8.8</span> ; ἰατρευόμενοι . . οὐδὲν περαίνουσι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>426a</span> ; <b class="b3">ἵνα τι περαίνωμεν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">346a</span> ; περαίνειν ἤδη ὥρα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>3.2.32</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b2">draw a conclusion, infer</b>, <b class="b3">διὰ τοῦ ἀδυνάτου π</b>. by a reductio ad impossibile, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APr.</span> 41a23</span> ; <b class="b3">ὁ περαίνων [λόγος</b>], a kind of syllogism, <span class="bibl">D.L.7.44</span> ; <b class="b3">περὶ τῶν π. λ</b>., title of work by Chrysippus:—freq. in Pass., <b class="b3">τὸ ἐν πλείοσι σχήμασι . . περαινόμενον</b> <b class="b2">the conclusion which is drawn</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APr.</span> 42b30</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">περαίνεται</b> c. acc. et inf., <b class="b2">it is inferred</b> that... Muson.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1p.2H., cf. Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.137 S. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> sens. obsc., <span class="bibl">Artem.1.80</span>, <span class="bibl">D.L.2.127</span>:—Pass., <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>14, <span class="title">AP</span>11.339, D.L.l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> intr., <b class="b2">reach, penetrate</b>, δι' ὤτων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>57</span>(lyr.); εἰς τὸν ἐγκέφαλον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>492a21</span> ; πρὸς [τὴν καρδίαν] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">PA</span>666a13</span> ; εἰς τὸ ἔξω <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">GA</span>716b28</span> : abs., <b class="b2">penetrate</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HA</span>497a10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">come to an end</b>, <b class="b3">τὸ πεπερασμένον ἀεὶ πρός τι περαίνει</b> the finite always <b class="b2">comes to</b> some <b class="b2">limit</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>203b21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Xen.</span>977b6</span> ; <b class="b2">end in</b>... εἴς τι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>340</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Men.</span>76a</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Arat.</span>52</span>, etc.; ἡ ὁδὸς π. ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cat.Ma.</span>13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b2">pierce</b>, h.Merc.48.</span>