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
- L
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...repositorii Marsyas quattuor, ex quorum utriculis garum piperatum currebat super pisces, qui in euripo natabant. Damus omnes plausum..." - Q
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..." - Q
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..."