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
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..."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..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...matris prosilit, excutitur, atque illud prono praeceps agitur decursu, huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor. LXVI. Omnia..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militaris artis propiorque gladiatorium armorum usum. cum alios decursu edidissent motus, quadrato agmine facto, scutis super capita densatis..."Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parataque essent, effecerat. mota parumper acies, non iusto decursu tamen, ne stetisse tantum in armis uiderentur; armatosque, sicut..."Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...restitit parricidio tuo. hesterno die in lustratione et decursu et simulacro ludicro pugnae funestum prope proelium fecisti..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...essent, Latine sciebant. Itaque ne subito ex collibus decursu Albanorum intercluderentur ab oppido, terga vertunt. Instat Tullus fusoque..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Troxobore duce montis asperos castris cepere atque inde decursu in litora aut urbes vim cultoribus et oppidanis..."
