cursus
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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...spumanti carmina lingua murmure continuo, nec dat suspiria cursus uolneris aut minimum patiuntur fata tacere. saepe quidem pestis..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ferro.illuc et Libye Numidas et Creta Cydonasmisit, Ityraeis cursus fuit inde sagittis, 230inde, truces Galli, solitum prodistis..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Magno,castraque Caesareo circumdatus aggere mutat:flumina tot cursus illic exorta fatigant, 45illic mersa suos; operumque ut summa..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...sanguine turbacernetis nostros iam plebs Romana triumphos.Caesaris an cursus uestrae sentire putatis 335damnum posse fugae? ueluti, si cuncta..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...circumdedit aequor,hoc ferit et taciti praebet miracula cursus, 425quod nec uela ferat nec apertas uerberet undas.tum freta..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...undae; 260at Tigrim subito tellus absorbet hiatuoccultosque tegit cursus rursusque renatumfonte nouo flumen pelagi non abnegat undis.inter Caesareas..." - A
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...cupide adpetisse aut nunc temere repudiasse dicamini". IV. Cursus igitur hic et sonus rotundae volubilisque sententiae eximie..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...litora Niliadsiduo feriunt coguntque resistere fluctu: 245ille mora cursus aduersique obice pontiaestuat in campos. sunt qui spiramina terrisesse..."