perconto (percuncto), āre, 1, v. a. and n. (ante- and post-class.) [v. percontor],
I to question strictly or particularly , to inquire earnestly : docte percontat, Aeneas quo pacto, etc., Naev. ap. Non. 474, 7: si percontassem, etc., Nov. ib. 474, 5: quod sedulo percontaveram, Ap. Met. 11, 19, 13.—
2 percontor , ātus, in pass. signif.: de ovium dentibus opiliones percontantur, are questioned (preceded by quae a grammatico quaerenda sunt), Gell. 16, 6, 11: percontato pretio, Ap. Met. 1, 24, 11.—Hence, poet., as subst.: percontatum , i, n., = ἀξίωμα, a fundamental truth , an established principle , Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 5, 46.