percurrens
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...ruit navis et nubila differt, inter dum rapido percurrens turbine campos arboribus magnis sternit montisque supremos silvifragis vexat..." - L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...labore ullo lassitudo et oscitatio et horror membra percurrens - sic infirmus animus multo ante quam opprimatur malis quatitur..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...solis aspicis truncis nemus: sic nostra longum forma percurrens iter deperdit aliquid semper et fulget minus, nec illa..." 
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...natale decus; dat longior aetas iam speciem; triplici percurrens tempora nodo demittit sacro geminas a vertice vittas. Datin..."- P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum arguto tenuis percurrens pectine telas. hinc exaudiri gemitus iraeque leonum vincla recusantum..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Poscitur Alcithoe, postquam siluere sorores. quae radio stantis percurrens stamina telae 'vulgatos taceo' dixit 'pastoris amores Daphnidis Idaei..."