decurrentis
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);
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ficta verba in incipiendo, narrando, argumentando tractabimus, neque decurrentis contexto nitore circumitus ubi dividenda erit causa..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quod aures continuam vocem secutae, ductaeque velut prono decurrentis orationis flumine, tum magis iudicant cum ille impetus stetit..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...putas?" suam C. Cassius, qui militi sine gladio decurrenti "heus, commilito, pugno bene uteris" inquit, et Gabba..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ludis, armati inducebantur. horum inductio ex parte simulacrum decurrentis exercitus erat, ex parte elegantioris [exercitus] quam militaris artis..."