currebat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aqua nec recens semper velut ex calido fonte currebat, nec referre credebant in quam perlucida sordes deponerent..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...repositorii Marsyas quattuor, ex quorum utriculis garum piperatum currebat super pisces, qui in euripo natabant. Damus omnes plausum..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...circum compita siccus lautis mane senex manibus currebat et 'unum', —'quid tam magnum?' addens—, 'unum me surpite morti..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...aequale homini fuit illi: saepe velut qui currebat fugiens hostem, persaepe velut qui Iunonis sacra ferret; habebat saepe..."