percurrant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →percurro, percurrere, percucurri, percursus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
quickly move/run/travel/hasten/pass through/over; form continuous line; stroke;; review, run over (in thought/words), run through in sequence; skim over;; touch upon different points in quick succession; fill offices in succession;; travel quickly from end to end; make rapid tour, visit in quick succession;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...huic fundo ad dextram? PH. memini. BA. curriculo percurre: apud eum miles Dionysia agitat: SY. quid inceptat..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Stygia descendens tibi matrem reliqui. Profugus ignotas procul percurre gentes: te licet terra ultimo summota mundo dirimat Oceani..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...miserum malique fati! quem attractis pedibus patente porta percurrent raphanique mugilesque. XVI. ad Aurelium et Furium Pedicabo..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...secundo cera velit versu; solus multisne coheres, veloci percurre oculo. plerumque recoctus scriba ex quinqueviro corvum deludet hiantem..."
