cursus (noun M) : id.
* A running (on foot, on a horse, chariot, ship, etc.), a course, way, march, passage, voyage, journey, etc. (very freq.).
* Lit.
* Of living beings: ingressus, cursus, accubitio, etc.,Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94: ibi cursu, luctando ... sese exercebant,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24; cf. id. Most. 1, 2, 73, and Hor. A. P. 412: quique pedum cursu valet, etc.,Verg. A. 5, 67: cursu superare canem,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 51: milites cursu exanimati,Caes. B. G. 2, 23: huc magno cursu intenderunt,at full speed,id. ib. 3, 19: magno cursu concitatus,id. B. C. 1, 70: cursu incitatus,id. ib. 1, 79; 3, 46; Auct. B. Alex. 20; cf.: in cursu esse,Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1; cf. II. fin. infra: strictis gladiis cursu in hostem feruntur,advance at a run,Liv. 9, 13, 2: effuso cursu,id. 2, 50, 6: eo cursu proripere, ut, etc.,id. 24, 26, 12; 31, 21, 6: eo cursu, Auct. B. Alex 30: eodem cursu contendere,right onward,Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf. id. B. G. 6, 67: citato cursu. Just. 11, 15, 2: cursus in Graeciam per tuam provinciam,Cic. Att. 10, 4, 10: quis umquam tam brevi tempore tot loca adire, tantos cursus conficere potuit?id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34: (terrae) tuis non dicam cursibus, sed victoriis lustratae sunt,id. ib. 2, 5: agmen cursūs magis quam itineris modo ducit,Curt. 5, 13, 5; 6, 1, 12; Just. 15, 3, 11; 11, 8, 2: Miltiades cursum direxit, quo tendebat,Nep. Milt. 1, 6; Vell. 2, 19, 4; 1, 4, 1: Ulixi per mare,Hor. C. 1, 6, 7: iterare cursus relictos,id. ib. 1, 34, 4: Naxon, ait Liber, cursus advertite vestros,Ov. M. 3, 636 et saep.; cf. B.: cursum per auras Derigere, Verg. A. 6, 194; so of flying, Ov. M. 2, 838; 4, 787 al.
* Trop. (freq. in Cic. and Quint.), a course, progress, direction, way: qui cursus rerum, qui exitus futurus sit,Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 3; cf. Tac. H. 4, 34; id. Agr. 39: implicari aliquo certo genere cursuque vivendi,Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117: vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus,id. Sest. 21, 47: reliquus vitae cursus,id. Phil. 2, 19, 47: totius vitae cursum videre,id. Off. 1, 4, 11: omnem vitae suae cursum conficere,id. Cael. 17, 39: in omni vitae cursu optimum visum est, ut, etc.,Macr. S. 1, 2, 3: temporum,Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 2: tuorum honorum,id. ib. 3, 11, 2; cf. Tac. H. 1, 48: continuus proeliorum,id. Agr. 27 al.: cursus vocis per omnis sonos,Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 227: cursus verborum,id. ib. 1, 35, 161; so of the motion or flow of discourse, etc., id. Part. Or. 15, 52; Quint. 8, prooem. § 27; 9, 4, 70: cursus hic et sonus rotundae volubilisque sententiae,Gell. 11, 13, 4: quem enim cursum industria mea tenere potuisset sine forensibus causis, etc.,Cic. Phil. 8, 4, 11; cf. id. Or. 1, 4: nos in eodem cursu fuimus a Sullā dictatore ad eosdem fere consules,id. Brut. 96, 328; so, esse in cursu,to go on, continue,Ov. M. 13, 508; id. F. 6, 362.
* Meton.
* Cursum tenere, as supra, 1. b.: tanta tempestas subito coorta est, ut nulla earum (navium) cursum tenere posset,Caes. B. G. 4, 28.
* Cursum exspectare, to wait for a fair wind (lit. for a passage), Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1.
* (Abstr. pro concr.) Cursus publici, in the time of the emperors, posts or relays divided into stations, for the speedy transmission of information upon state affairs, Cod. Just. 12, 51; Cod. Th. 8, 5; Inscr. Orell. 3181; 3329; cf.. equi publici,Amm. 14, 6, 16: vehicula publica,id. 21, 13, 7: cursus vehicularius,Capitol. Ant. P. 12, 3: vehicularis,Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 4: cursus fiscalis,Spart. Had. 7; v. Suet. Aug. 49.

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