A.on the other side, across, in early Poets always c. gen., esp. of water, “νήσων αἳ ναίουσι π. ἁλός” Il.2.626; “πέρνασχ᾽ ὅν τιν᾽ ἕλεσκε π. ἁλός” 24.752 (never in Od.); “π. κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο” Hes.Th.215; π. Χάεος ζοφεροῖο ib.814; “π. πόντοιο” Pi.N.5.21; “τὰ π. τοῦ Ἴστρου” Hdt.5.9; “πόντου π. τραφεῖσαν” A.Ag.1200; “πολιοῦ π. πόντου” S.Ant.334 (lyr.); π. τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου, τοῦ ποταμοῦ, Th.2.67, X. An.4.3.3; π. Ἕβρον is corrupt in E.HF386 (leg. Ἕβρου).
2. abs., on the other side, esp. of water, “προσορμίζεσθαι . . π. ἐν τῇ Ῥηναίῃ” Hdt. 6.97; “π. εἶναι” X.An.2.4.20, 3.5.12, etc.; π. γενέσθαι ib.6.5.22.
3. with Verbs of motion, folld. by εἰς, over or across to . . , “π. ἐς τὴν Ἀχαιίην διέπεμψαν” Hdt.8.36; “π. εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαβῆναι” X.An.7.2.2; “διαπλεύσαντες π. τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας ἐς Οἰνιάδας” Th.1.111; also without εἰς, ἐκ Θάσου διαβαλόντες π. having crossed over (sc. ἐς τὴν ἤπειρον), Hdt.6.44.
4. freq. c. Art., “διαβιβάζεσθαι εἰς τὸ π. τοῦ ποταμοῦ” X.An. 3.5.2 ; διέβη εἰς τὸ π. Id.HG1.3.17; ἐν τῷ π. Id.An.4.3.11; τὰ π. things done on the opposite side, ib.4.3.24; τὰ π. πράγματα, opp. τὰ ἐπὶ τάδε, Plb.3.97.5; οἱ π. those on the other side, Plu.Mar.23; ἡ ὄχθη ἡ π. Arr.An.5.10.2.
II. over against, opposite, c. gen., “π. ἱερῆς Εὐβοίης” Il.2.535: freq. in Paus., 2.22.2, 5.15.8,al.
III. less freq. = πέρα (A), beyond, c. gen., “π. Νείλοιο παγᾶν” Pi.I.6(5).23; “π. γε πόντου καὶ τόπων Ἀτλαντικῶν” E.Hipp.1053, cf. Alc.585 (lyr.), Supp.676.
