percurrerer
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;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...tellus concussa moveri perque mare ac terras rapidus percurrere turbo, ignis abundare Aetnaeus, flammescere caelum; id quoque enim..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...voces et flectere cantus et supera calamos unco percurrere labro; unde etiam vigiles nunc haec accepta tuentur..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...natura loci spatiumque profundi, quod neque clara suo percurrere fulmina cursu perpetuo possint aevi labentia tractu nec prorsum..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...surgit. [14,1] Tempus est alios quoque ignes percurrere, quorum diuersae figurae sunt. Aliquando emicat stella, aliquando ardores..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...cunctatione ac mora partis eius omnis cogitatio possit percurrere. Et primus hic labor est, non haerere in occursu..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...magis campis intendere suadet dum datur ardentesque viri percurrere pugnas, ac simul hanc dictis, illum dea Marte secundo..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...cupidas Faunorum arcebo rapinas.' dixerat; ast illis tenuior percurrere uisus ora situs, uiridisque comis exhorruit umor. protinus Inachios..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ferrea vox, omnis scelerum comprendere formas, omnia poenarum percurrere nomina possim.' Haec ubi dicta dedit Phoebi longaeva sacerdos..."