excursus (noun M) : excurro
* A running out or forth (rare; not in Cic.; cf. excursio).
* Lit.: excursusque breves tentant (apes),excursions,Verg. G. 4, 194: avium,Sol. 20, 3; cf. the outflow of water,Plin. Ep. 4, 30, 8.
* In partic., in milit. lang. (like excursio, I. B.), a sally, charge, onset, attack; an inroad, invasion: excursus militum, * Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2: rari,Tac. G. 30: subiti,id. Agr. 20: navigiorum, Auct. B. Alex. 19, 2.
* Trop., a digression in speaking: hae (egressiones) per totam causam varios habent excursus, ut laus hominum locorumque, etc.,Quint. 4, 3, 12; opp. opus ipsum,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 43.

excursus, a, um, Part., from excurro.

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