percurrunt
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...inde tremor terras graviter pertemptat et altum murmura percurrunt caelum; nam tota fere tum tempestas concussa tremit fremitusque..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...horribili cum plaga torrida tellus contremit et magnum percurrunt murmura caelum? non populi gentesque tremunt, regesque superbi corripiunt..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...plurimis flexibus serviunt, cum interim alios nervos dextra percurrunt, alios laeva trahunt continent praebent, ne pes quidem otiosus..."