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permĕābĭlis, e, adj. [permeo], that can be passed through, passable: latitudo, Sol. 47.

permĕātor, ōris, m. [permeo], he that passes through, Tert. Apol. 21.

permĕātus, ūs, m. [permeo], the passage through: sucus permeatus suavis, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 228.

per-mĕdĭŏcris, e, adj., very moderate: motus, Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 220.

per-mĕdĭtātus, a, um, adj., well prepared, well trained, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 39.

per-mensĭo, ōnis, f. [permetior], a measuring out: terrae, geometry, Mart. Cap. 7, § 725.

permensus, a, um, Part., from permetior.

per-mĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to go or pass through, to cross, traverse.

  1. I. Lit.: Euphrates mediam Babylonem permeans, Plin. 5, 26, 21, § 90: Alpheus in eā insulā sub ima maria permeat, id. 31, 5, 30, § 55: in quos (barbaros) saxa et hastae longius permeabant, quam ut contrario sagittarum icto adaequarentur, traversed too much space, i. e. went too far in reaching them, etc., Tac. A. 15, 9: Ister permeat orbem, Luc. 2, 418: dum littera nostra Tot maria ac terras permeat, Ov. P. 4, 11, 16: permeato amne, Amm. 21, 13, 2.
    Impers. pass.: iter, quo ab usque Pontico mari in Galliam permeatur, Aur. Vict. Caes. 13.
    1. B. Transf., to go forward, go on: naviter et sine ullis concessationibus, Col. 11, 1, 16.
  2. II. Trop., to penetrate, pervade: quod quaedam animalis intellegentia per omnia ea permeet et transeat, Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 119.

* per-mĕrĕo, ŭi, 2, v. n., to go through service, to serve out as a soldier, Stat. S. 1, 4, 74.

Permessus, i, m., = Περμησσός, a river in Bœotia sacred to Apollo and the Muses, which rises in Mount Helicon and flows into the Copaic lake, Verg. E. 6, 64.
Hence,

  1. A. Permessis, ĭdis or ĭdos, adj. f., Permessian, Mart. 1, 77, 11; 8, 70, 3.
  2. B. Permessĭus, a, um, adj., Permessian: fons, Claud. Laud. Seren. 8.

per-mētĭor, mensus, 4, v. dep. a., to measure through, measure out, measure (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: solis magnitudinem, quasi decempedā, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 126.
  2. II. Transf., to travel through, traverse: (lupus femina) campos celeri passu permensa, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 18 (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.); so id. ap. Fest. p. 301 Müll. (Ann. v. 443 ib.): ad vos permensu’st viam, came over, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49: Siciliae oras errabundus permetiens, Consol. ad Polyb. 36: classibus aequor, Verg. A. 3, 157: aëra, Lucr. 6, 1142: iter, Stat. S. 1, 2, 202: secula, to live through, Mart. 9, 30, 1.
    Hence, part. perf.: per-mensus, a, um, in pass. signif., measured out: permensum et perlibratum opus, Col. 3, 13 fin.: permenso tempore lucis, Tib. 3, 3, 9; App. M. 8, p. 209, 40: gradatim permensis honoribus, id. ib. 10, p. 247, 25.

(per-mĕtŭens, a false read. for praemetuens, Verg. A. 2, 573.)