πέρᾰς,
Epic dialect πεῖραρ (which see), ᾰτος, τό, end, limit, boundary,
__I in local sense, ἐκ περάτων γᾶς [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33.1, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.69; π... αὔλ[ε]ιος θύρα ἐλευθέρα γυναικὶ νενόμιστ᾽ οἰκίας 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 546 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; τὸ π. tip, τοῦ αἰδοίου [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 773a21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; [τῆς ῥινός] [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).28] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τισὶ τὰ π. ἀλγέει the extremities, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.7. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__IIgenerally, limit, either opposed to ἀρχή, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 264b27 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], or including it, τελευτή γε καὶ ἀρχὴ π. ἑκάστου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 137d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 777b29, “Metaphorical” 1022a4; οὐκ ἔχων π. κακῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1216, compare “Or.” 511, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 632, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.88, etc.; π. ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποις ἐστὶ τοῦ βίου θάνατος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.97, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1115a26; εἰ π. μηδὲν ἔσται σφίσι τοῦ ἀπαλλαγῆναι τοῦ κινδύνου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἔχειν, ={περαίνεσθαι}, come to an end, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.5, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 60, etc.; π. λαμβάνειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.31.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπιθεῖναι τῇ γενέσει π. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 776a4; ἐν π. εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.18.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]