I.to climb, pass, cross, or step over, to overstep, surmount.
I. Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero, transgredior).
A. 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.—
B. Act.: fossam transire et maceriam transcendere conantur. Caes. B. G. 7, 70: “fossas,” id. B. C. 3, 46: “valles,” id. ib. 1, 68: “Caucasum,” Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22: “Alpes,” id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; Liv. 5, 34, 8; 5, 35, 1: “Apenninum,” id. 22, 1, 1: “Taurum,” Just. 11, 8, 2: “flumen exercitu,” Tac. A. 4, 44: “limen,” Prop. 1, 14, 19 et saep.—
II. Trop., to pass over, to overstep, surpass, exceed, transcend (rare; not in Cic.).
A. 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. —
B. 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.—
2. 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.