(verb) : transcendo or trans-scendo, di, sum, 3, and n. scando
* To climb, pass, cross, or step over, to overstep, surmount.
* Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero, transgredior).
* Neutr.: est periculum me ab asinis ad boves transcendere,Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 58: transcendere in hostium naves,Caes. B. G. 3, 15; id. B. C. 1, 58: in Italiam (Hasdrubal),Liv. 28, 42, 14: in fines hostium,id. 3, 8, 4: in Latinum agrum,id. 4, 53, 2: in Sedetanum agrum,id. 28, 31, 7; cf.: per Vescinos in Campaniam Falernumque agrum, id. 10, 20, 1; 31, 29, 6; 36, 24, 4.
* Trop., to pass over, to overstep, surpass, exceed, transcend (rare; not in Cic.).
* Neutr.: ad leviora,to pass over, make a transition,Quint. 7, 1, 21: ad majora,Vell. 2, 130, 3: ex minore aetate in majorem, Hyg. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 15. — Absol.: ut non abrupte cadere in narrationem, ita non obscure transcendere,Quint. 4, 1, 79.
* Act.: transcendere fines Juris,to orerstep, transgress,Lucr. 3, 60: transcendere ordinem aetatis, naturae, moris Macedonum, juris gentium,Liv. 40, 11, 7; cf. id. 40, 9, 8: prohibita impune,Tac. A. 3, 54: nec declinari transcendique posse agmina fati,Gell. 7 (6), 2, 5.
* To excel, exceed, surpass, transcend: aetatem primae juventae,Col. 1, 8, 3: at tu transcendes, Germanice, facta tuorum,Sil. 3, 607: annos factis,id. 4, 428: florentes annos viribus,id. 1, 226: vota transcendi mea,Sen. Thyest. 912: aliquem aetate,id. Troad. 702.