decurre
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decurro, decurrere, decucurri, decursus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
run/hurry/rush/flow/slope down; hasten; travel downstream; come to land/end;; run a race (over course); make for; turn (to); exercise/drill/maneuver (army);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...urbes excite feras; coniuret in arma mundus, Achaemeniis decurrant Medica Susis agmina, Massageten Scythicus non adliget Hister, 50fundat..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...exitus inuitat et loci laxitas, in quam coaceruata decurrant. [8,2] Huius rei argumentum est, quod prima noctis..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...subministrat; quomodo tot flumina ingentia per diem noctemque decurrant; quare alia hibernis aquis intumescant, alia in defectu ceterorum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...donare regiones, per quas magna flumina et nauigabilia decurrant, beneficium est arentibus siti et uix spiritum per siccas..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...uelociter, tam rapide dati nobis temporis spatia decurrant, adeo ut exceptis admodum paucis ceteros in ipso uitae apparatu..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Phoebeus axis, degener mentem Herculis clamor domaret; mille decurrant ferae pariterque lacerent, hinc feris clangoribus aetheria me Stymphalis..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...olea magnum uestire Taburnum. tuque ades inceptumque una decurre laborem, o decus, o famae merito pars maxima nostrae..."