currendo
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;
abl. sg. fut. pass. part.abl. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ACAN. Opera licet experiri, qui me rupi causa currendo tua, ut quae scirem scire actutum tibi liceret. CHAR..."Epaminondas
Cornelius Nepos
"...belli existimabat utilitatem pertinere. Itaque exercebatur plurimum currendo et luctando ad eum finem, quoad stans complecti posset atque..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...canem munus; quem cum sua traderet illi Cynthia, "currendo superabit" dixerat "omnes." dat simul et iaculum, manibus quod..."