peractio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

pĕractĭo, ōnis, f. [perago], a finishing, completion.

I Lit.: peccati, Hilar. in Psa. 118, 4, 8.—

II Aetatis, transf. from the stage, qs. the last act of the drama , Cic. Sen. 23, 85 (cf. id. ib. 18, 64: fabulam aetatis peregisse, and 19, 70: peragenda fabula est).

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