decursu
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);
abl. sg. - Entry →decursus, decursus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
descent; downward course/slope/rush/fall/flow; attack/charge downhill; maneuver;; running race/course; finish; flow (verse); coming to land; watercourse/channel;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- M
VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...haec caeli siderumque compago, et praecipiti per proclive decursu ~totius diei noctisque brevitate emensus orientis occidentisque cursus~ diversi..." - P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...silvam et virgulta sonantia lauro, aut ubi decursu rapido de montibus altis dant sonitum spumosi amnes..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...matris prosilit, excutitur, atque illud prono praeceps agitur decursu, huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor. LXVI. Omnia..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militaris artis propiorque gladiatorium armorum usum. cum alios decursu edidissent motus, quadrato agmine facto, scutis super capita densatis..." - T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parataque essent, effecerat. mota parumper acies, non iusto decursu tamen, ne stetisse tantum in armis uiderentur; armatosque, sicut..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...restitit parricidio tuo. hesterno die in lustratione et decursu et simulacro ludicro pugnae funestum prope proelium fecisti..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...essent, Latine sciebant. Itaque ne subito ex collibus decursu Albanorum intercluderentur ab oppido, terga vertunt. Instat Tullus fusoque..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Troxobore duce montis asperos castris cepere atque inde decursu in litora aut urbes vim cultoribus et oppidanis..."
