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|lshtext=<b>transcendo</b>: or [[trans]]-scendo, di, [[sum]], 3, v. a. and n. [[scando]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[climb]], [[pass]], [[cross]], or [[step]] [[over]], to [[overstep]], [[surmount]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. (freq. and [[class]].; cf.: [[supero]], [[transgredior]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Neutr.: est [[periculum]] me ab asinis ad boves transcendere, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 58: transcendere in hostium naves, Caes. B. G. 3, 15; id. B. C. 1, 58: in Italiam ([[Hasdrubal]]), Liv. 28, 42, 14: in fines hostium, id. 3, 8, 4: in Latinum agrum, id. 4, 53, 2: in Sedetanum agrum, id. 28, 31, 7; cf.: per Vescinos in Campaniam Falernumque agrum, id. 10, 20, 1; 31, 29, 6; 36, 24, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Act.: fossam transire et maceriam transcendere conantur. Caes. B. G. 7, 70: fossas, id. B. C. 3, 46: [[valles]], id. ib. 1, 68: Caucasum, Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22: [[Alpes]], id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; Liv. 5, 34, 8; 5, 35, 1: Apenninum, id. 22, 1, 1: Taurum, Just. 11, 8, 2: [[flumen]] exercitu, Tac. A. 4, 44: [[limen]], Prop. 1, 14, 19 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[pass]] [[over]], to [[overstep]], [[surpass]], [[exceed]], [[transcend]] ([[rare]]; not in Cic.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Neutr.: ad leviora, to [[pass]] [[over]], [[make]] a [[transition]], Quint. 7, 1, 21: ad majora, Vell. 2, 130, 3: ex minore aetate in majorem, Hyg. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 15. — Absol.: ut non [[abrupte]] cadere in narrationem, ita non [[obscure]] transcendere, Quint. 4, 1, 79. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Act.: transcendere fines Juris, to orerstep, [[transgress]], Lucr. 3, 60: transcendere ordinem aetatis, naturae, moris Macedonum, juris gentium, Liv. 40, 11, 7; cf. id. 40, 9, 8: prohibita [[impune]], Tac. A. 3, 54: nec declinari transcendique posse agmina fati, Gell. 7 (6), 2, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[excel]], [[exceed]], [[surpass]], [[transcend]]: aetatem primae juventae, Col. 1, 8, 3: at tu transcendes, Germanice, facta tuorum, Sil. 3, 607: annos factis, id. 4, 428: florentes annos viribus, id. 1, 226: vota transcendi mea, Sen. Thyest. 912: aliquem aetate, id. [[Troad]]. 702.