cursibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cursus, cursus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
running; speed/zeal; charge, onrush; forward movement/march; revolution (wheel);; course/direction, line of advance, orbit; voyage/passage; race; career; series;; lesson;
abl. pl.dat. pl.
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Astyrici scrutator pallidus auri.non tamen aut tectis sonuerunt cursibus amnesaut micuere noui percusso pumice fontes, 300antra nec exiguo..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...illarum posuit nec nomina, nondum comprehensis quinque siderum cursibus. Eudoxus primus ab Aegypto hos motus in Graeciam transtulit..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...temere iactae colla perfundant comae umerosque summos, cursibus motae citis uentos sequantur. laeua se pharetrae dabit, hastile uibret..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Hypanin vehit atque remissum pone trahit fugiens et cursibus exuit hastam dumque recollectam rursus locat, inruit ultro turbatumque..."Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...tollere passus bracchia torrenti praeceps agit undique nimbo cursibus involvens totaque immanis harena insequitur. vigil ille metu..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...fluuio neutri fatale reuerti. iam laceri pronis uoluuntur cursibus artus oraque et abscisae redeunt in pectora dextrae, spicula..."Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...undis. proximus et forma nec multum segnior Idas cursibus atque aeuo iuxta prior; attamen illi iam tenuem pingues..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ipsa decus dedit Orithyia, qui candore nives anteirent, cursibus auras. circumstant properi aurigae manibusque lacessunt pectora plausa cavis..."