Permeo, pérmeas, permeâre. Plin. To go: to passe ouer.Per omnia ea permeet & transeat.Cicer.May go and passe through all those things.Orbem permeare. Lucan. To go through the world.Tot maria & terras permeat.Ouid.Permeare extra lacum. Col. Sub ima maria permeat. Pli. It goeth or runneth vnder the vottome of the sea.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-mĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to go or pass through, to cross, traverse.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.— B.Transf., to go forward, go on: naviter et sine ullis concessationibus, Col. 11, 1, 16.—II.Trop., to penetrate, pervade: quod quaedam animalis intellegentia per omnia ea permeet et transeat, Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 119.