πέρᾱν,
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect πέρην, adverb on the other side, across, in early Poets always with genitive, especially of water, νήσων αἳ ναίουσι π. ἁλός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.626; πέρνασχ᾽ ὅν τιν᾽ ἕλεσκε π. ἁλός 24.752 (never in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”); π. κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 215 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. Χάεος ζοφεροῖο[[ [prev. work] 814; π. πόντοιο 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.21; τὰ π. τοῦ Ἴστρου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.9; πόντου π. τραφεῖσαν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1200; πολιοῦ π. πόντου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 334 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου, τοῦ ποταμοῦ, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. Ἕβρον is corrupt in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 386 (to be read Ἕβρου). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely, on the other side, especially of water, προσορμίζεσθαι.. π. ἐν τῇ Ῥηναίῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.97; π. εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.20, 3.5.12, etc.; π. γενέσθαι [prev. work] 6.5.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 with Verbs of motion, followed by εἰς, over or across to.., π. ἐς τὴν Ἀχαιίην διέπεμψαν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.36; π. εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαβῆναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.2; διαπλεύσαντες π. τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας ἐς Οἰνιάδας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also without εἰς, ἐκ Θάσου διαβαλόντες π. having crossed over (i.e. ἐς τὴν ἤπειρον), [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]