(verb) : dē-curro, cŭcurri
* Or curri (cf.: decucurrit,Caes. B. G. 2, 21; Tac. A. 2, 7; Suet. Ner. 11: decucurrerunt,Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 7; Petr. 64, 3: decucurrerat,Liv. 1, 12: decucurrisse,id. 25, 17; also, decurrerunt,id. 26, 51; 38, 8: decurrēre,Verg. A. 4, 153; 11, 189: decurrisset,Liv. 33, 26), cursum, 3, and (with homogeneous objects, viam, spatium, trop. aetatem, etc.) a., to run down from a higher point; to flow, move, sail, swim down; to run over, run through, traverse (class. and very freq.).
* Lit.
* In gen.
* Trop.
* Esp., milit. t. t., to go through military exercises or manoeuvres, to advance rapidly, to charge, skirmish, etc.: pedites decurrendo signa sequi et servare ordines docuit,while performing evolutions,Liv. 24, 48; cf. id. 23, 35; 26, 51; 40, 6 al.: ex montibus in vallem,Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 4; cf.: ex omnibus partibus,id. ib. 3, 4: ex superiore loco,Liv. 6, 33: ex Capitolio in hostem,id. 9, 4: ab arce,id. 1, 12: inde (sc. a Janiculo),id. 2, 10 et saep.: incredibili celeritate ad flumen,Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 7.—Pass. impers.: quinto (die) iterum in armis de cursum est,Liv. 26, 51.
* Transf., of the stars (poet.), to accomplish their course: stellaeque per vacuum solitae noctis decurrere tempus, Lucan. 1, 531; cf. lampas,id. 10, 501.
* Transf., to walk or run in armor, in celebrating some festival (usually in funeral games): (in funere Gracchi tradunt) armatum exercitum decucurrisse cum tripudiis Hispanorum,Liv. 25, 17: ter circum rogos, cincti fulgentibus armis, decurrēre,Verg. A. 11, 189; Tac. A. 2, 7; Suet. Claud. 1 (v. decursio).
* In gen.
* Neutr.: quin proclivius hic iras decurrat ad acreis,Lucr. 3, 312; 4, 706; 5, 1262: quibus generibus per totas quaestiones decurrimus, go over or through, Quint. 9, 2, 48; cf. id. 10, 3, 17; Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 72: omnium eo sententiae decurrerunt, ut, pax, etc.,come to,Liv. 38, 8: ides se non illuc decurrere, quod,Tac. A. 4, 40: ad Philotam,Curt. 7, 1, 28: ad consulendum te,Plin. Ep. 10, 96.—Pass. impers.: decurritur ad leniorem sententiam,they come to,Liv. 6, 19; Quint. 6, 1, 2: sermo extra calcem decurrens,Amm. 21, 1, 14: postremo eo decursum est, ut, etc.,Liv. 26, 18; so id. 22, 31; 31, 20; Tac. A. 3, 59.
* In partic.
* Pregn.: ad aliquid, to betake one's self to, have recourse to: ad haec extrema et inimicissima jura tam cupide decurrebas, ut, etc.,Cic. Quint. 15; so, ad istam hortationem,id. Caecin. 33, 65: ad medicamenta,Cels. 6, 18, 3: ad oraculum,Just. 16, 3: ad miseras preces,Hor. Od. 3, 29, 59: Haemonias ad artes,Ov. A. A. 2, 99; cf.: assuetas ad artes (Circe),id. Rem. Am. 287. Rarely to persons: ad Alexandri exercitum,Just. 14, 2.—Pass. impers.: decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum S. C.... DENT OPERAM CONSVLES, etc.,Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3.
* Of the heavenly bodies, to set, move downwards: qua sol decurrit meridies nuncupatur,Mel. 1, 1, 1; Manil. 1, 505.—With acc., to traverse, Tibull. 4, 1, 160.
* In the rhetor. lang. of Quint., said of speech, to run on, Quint. 9, 4, 55 sq.; 11, 1, 6; 12, 9, 2 al.
* Proverb., to run through, i. e. to leave off: quadrigae meae decucurrerunt (sc. ex quo podagricus factus sum),i. e. my former cheerfulness is at an end, is gone,Petr. 64, 3.—So, haec (vitia) aetate sunt decursa, laid aside, Coel. in Cic. Fam. 8, 13.

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