adcurrunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adcurro, adcurrere, adcucurri, adcursus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
run/hasten to (help); come/rush up (inanim subj.); charge, rush to attack;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...animo fere perturbato atque incerto prae aegritudine. adsido: adcurrunt servi, soccos detrahunt; video alios festinare, lectos sternere, cenam..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...praecerpere frontem decretum est umerosque manu nudare nitentes, adcurrunt teneri Paphia cum matre volucres expediuntque comas et serica..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...vocat senatum praetor urbanus, certant adulationibus ceteri magistratus, adcurrunt patres: decernitur Othoni tribunicia potestas et nomen Augusti..."