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perpes, ĕtis, adj. [like perpetuus, from per-peto],
  • lasting throughout, continuous, uninterrupted, continual, perpetual (ante- and post-class.): perpetem pro perpetuo dixerunt poëtae, Fest. p. 217 Müll.: luna proprio suo perpeti candore, App. de Deo Socr. init.: silentium, id. Flor. 3, p. 357, 27: rivus cruore fluebat perpeti, Prud. Cath. 10, 42.—
    • B Esp., of time, continuous, never ending, perpetual, entire, whole: noctem perpetem, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 125 (277); 2, 2, 100 (732); id. Truc. 2, 2, 23 (278): nocte perpeti, Just. 5, 7, 6; Capitol. Ver. 4: perpetem diem alternis pedibus insistunt, Sol. 52: per annum perpetem, Lact. Mort. Pers. 33 fin.: perpes aevi aeternitas, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. M. 1, 34 Mai.— Hence, adv.: perpĕtim, constantly, without intermission, perpetually, Ap. Apol. p. 321, 5 (but in Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 44, the correct read. is perpetuo; v. Sillig ad h. l., and Hand, Turs. 4, p. 465).

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