currant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →curro, currere, cucurri, cursus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
run/trot/gallop, hurry/hasten/speed, move/travel/proceed/flow swiftly/quickly;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ceston: Ussit amatorem balteus iste Iovem. CCVIII Notarius. Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis: Nondum lingua suum..."- L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...omnium, suspicari se ait plures stellas esse quae currant, sed nec numerum illarum posuit nec nomina, nondum comprehensis..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...patent, et cum in pastus armenta uagos uilia currant, placet in uulnus maxima ceruix: quidquid in altum Fortuna..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vertice mersit. tutior est requies, solito dum flumina currant limite, dum tenues capiat suus alveus undas.' adnuit Aegides..."