περπερεύομαι
δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies
English (LSJ)
A boast, brag, 1 Ep.Cor.13.4, M.Ant.5.5.
German (Pape)
[Seite 603] ein πέρπερος sein, wie ein πέρπερος reden, handeln, d. i. windbeuteln, großprahlen, aufschneiden, sich womit brüsten, lügen, wie ἀλαζονεύομαι, Sp., N. T., wo es προπετεύεται, καλλωπίζεται erklärt wird.
French (Bailly abrégé)
être léger, frivole, étourdi.
Étymologie: πέρπερος.
English (Strong)
middle voice from perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of πέραν); to boast: vaunt itself.
English (Thayer)
(to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32,6, 5; 40,6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3,2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): Antoninus 5,5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1,14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians , the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5,5, p. 143).
