decurrens
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);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...origo in ipsa est. Quid refert an aqua decurrens intercipiatur atque abeat, si fons ex quo fluxerat salvus..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ducat intrepidam ratem; tuta me media uehat uita decurrens uia. Gnosium regem timens astra dum demens petit artibus..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...hastam horrida securis frangebat gressibus arva, qualis Caucasea decurrens arduus arce Amphitryoniades, aut torvo Iuppiter..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...genu, tenui vagus innatat unda crinis ad obscurae decurrens cingula mammae. ipsa citatarum tellus pede plausa sororum personat..."Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...simul veribus Cereremque dedere canistris. Iamque aderat summo decurrens vertice Chiron clamantemque patri procul ostendebat Achillen. ut puer..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...tempora nudus adhuc, laterique accinxerat ensem, fulgebatque alta decurrens aureus arce exsultatque animis et spe iam praecipit hostem..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...olim credebat libris neque, si male cesserat, usquam decurrens alio neque, si bene; quo fit ut omnis votiva..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Maeander ex arce summa Celaenarum ortus, media urbe decurrens, per Caras primum, deinde Ionas in sinum maris editur..."