(verb) : dis-curro, curri and cucurri (
* Perf. discucurri, Liv. 25, 25, 9; Sen. Contr. 4, 2; Suet. Calig. 32: discurrisse,Curt. 4, 15, 5; oftener curri,Liv. 34, 37; 3, 7, 32; Sen. Ep. 90, 36; Curt. 4, 15, 10 al.), cursum, 3
* To run different ways, to run to and fro, run about (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; in Cic not at all): in muris armata civitas, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 3: deus in montibus altis,Ov. F. 2, 285: plebs pileata tota Urbe,Suet. Ner. 57: circa deum delubra,Liv. 26, 9; cf.: circa vias,id. 25, 9: per omnes silvas,Ov. M. 14, 419; cf.: per ambitum lacus,Suet. Claud. 21; and: per Baianum sinum equis,id. Calig. 19: more victorum cum palma discucurrit,id. ib. 32 et saep.—Designating the term. ad quem: ad portas,Liv. 25, 37; Verg. A. 12, 577: ad arma,Liv. 5, 36: ad praedam,Curt. 4, 15: ad officia,Petr. 114: ad rapiendas virgines,Liv. 1, 9 et saep.: in latera,Front. Strat. 2, 3, 10; cf.: a media in utramque partem,Quint. 2, 4, 15.—Pass. impers.: ilicet in muros tota discurritur urbe,Verg. A. 11, 468: in tribus ad suffragium ferendum,Liv. 25, 2: ab caede ad diripiendam urbem,id. 27, 16 al.— In the pass., with a homogeneous subject: discursis magnis itineribus,Amm. 29, 5.
* Of inanimate and abstract subjects: discurrentes maculae in gemma,Plin. 37, 1, 3, § 5; 13, 21, 37, § 117: catenae circa latera,id. 33, 3, 12, § 40 al.: (Nilus) diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora,Verg. G. 4, 291; Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 182: fama tota urbe discurrit,Curt. 4, 1: mens discurret utroque,Ov. R. Am. 443.
* Transf., to traverse, run through or over, hasten through (post-class.): latius arva,Avien. Descr. Orb. 516: Gallias,Amm. 15, 5, 4: tramite aliquo discurso,id. 16, 2, 10: discursis itineribus magnis,id. 29, 5, 17.
* Trop., like Gr. διελθεῖν, to speak at length of a thing, to discourse of (post-class.): super quo nunc pauca discurram,Amm. 17, 4 (cf. in this sense the Romance discorrere, discourir, and v. 2, discursus, II.).

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