(verb) : trāno (transno), āvi, ātum, 1, and n. trans-no
* To swim over or across, to swim through.
* Lit.: in Tiberim desiluit et incolumis ad suos tranavit,Liv. 2, 10, 11: perpauci viribus confisi tranare contenderunt,Caes. B. G. 1, 53: flumen,id. B. C. 1, 48 fin.; Hirt. B. Alex. 29; Curt. 7, 7, 15; 7, 5, 18: flumina,Verg. G. 3, 270: amnes,Lucr. 1, 14: Gangem,Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 23: aquas,Quint. 2, 16, 13: paludem,Curt. 9, 1, 18: Lethaeas per undas,Verg. Cul. 213.— In pass.: obsequio tranantur aquae,Ov. A. A. 2, 181; so, Eridanus tranandus,Verg. Cul. 258.
* Transf., in gen., to go, sail, fly, or pierce through, penetrate, permeate (mostly poet.): auras,Lucr. 4, 177: ut parvum tranans geminaverit orbem,Cic. Arat. 403 (650): id cernemus toto genere hoc igneo, quod tranat omnia,id. N. D. 2, 9, 25; for which: per auras,Sil. 3, 682; 13, 185; cf.: turbida nubila,Verg. A. 4, 246: flumina sublimi curru,Stat. Th. 9, 311: ingentia spatia,Sil. 16, 335: foramina,Lucr. 4, 601: pectus viri (hasta),Sil. 13, 238: pericula,id. 17, 366.