Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.to carry through, complete, effect, bring about, achieve, execute, perform, accomplish; to commit, perpetrate (mostly ante-class. and post-Aug.; not in Cic. or Cæs.; rare as verb. finit.; syn.: “perago, exsequor, conficio): perpetrat, peragit, perficit,” Fest. p. 217 Müll.: “opus meum ut volui,” Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 24: “primā parte (operis) perpetratā,” Varr. L. L. 7, § 110 Müll.: “perpetratā caede,” Liv. 1, 6; cf.: “nemus, in quo perpetrata caedes erat,” Curt. 7, 2, 29: “id se facinus perpetraturos,” Liv. 31, 17, 9: “perpetrato sacro,” id. 23, 35, 18: “sacrificio rite perpetrato,” id. 43, 37, 13; 25, 12, 2: “pace nondum perpetratā,” id. 33, 21, 6: “perpetratis quae ad pacem deum pertinebant,” id. 24, 11, 1: “perpetrato bello,” id. 24, 45, 8; 27, 43, 7: “cujus (principis) jussu perpetratum ingenuitatis judicium erat,” Tac. A. 13, 27 fin.: “ad reliqua Judaici belli perpetranda,” id. H. 4, 51; id. A. 14, 38: “quibus perpetratis,” id. ib. 15, 14 fin.; 15, 72 init.: “perpetraret Anicetus promissa,” fulfil, id. ib. 14, 7; Curt. 4, 13, 16; 6, 3, 18: “postremo quasi perpetraturus bellum, imperavit, etc.,” Suet. Calig. 46 init.: “homicidium,” Vulg. Exod. 22, 3: “fraudem,” id. ib. 22, 9: “abominationem,” id. Deut. 13, 11: “qui sibi manus intulit et non perpetravit,” Dig. 48, 21, 3.—With ut or ne and subj., to bring it to pass that, that ... not, Tac. A. 12, 58; 14, 11.—With inf.: “male quod mulier facere incepit, nisi si ecficere perpetrat,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 18.