pĕractĭo

I. a finishing, completion.

I. Lit.: peccati, Hilar. in Psa. 118, 4, 8.—

II. Aetatis, transf. from the stage, qs. the last act of the drama, Cic. Sen. 23, 85 (cf. id. ib. 18, 64: fabulam aetatis peregisse, and 19, 70: peragenda fabula est).