percurrent
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. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...huic fundo ad dextram? PH. memini. BA. curriculo percurre: apud eum miles Dionysia agitat: SY. quid inceptat..."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..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...miserum malique fati! quem attractis pedibus patente porta percurrent raphanique mugilesque. XVI. ad Aurelium et Furium Pedicabo..."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..."
