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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."