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(verb) : per-curro, percŭcurri or percurri, percursum, 3, and n.
* Act., to run through, hasten through; to pass through, traverse, run over, pass over or along class.; syn. peragro).
* Lit.: percurrere agrum Picenum,Caes. B. C. 1, 15: labro calamos,Lucr. 4, 588: rapido percurrens turbine campos,id. 1, 273: pollice chordas,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27: conventus,Hirt. B. G. 8, 46: Tenchteros et Cattos,Flor. 4, 12: aristas,to speed over,Ov. M. 10, 655: percurrens luna fenestras,Prop. 1, 3, 31: pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; id. G. 1, 294: ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos,id. A. 8, 392: tempora nodo, i. e. to wind or bind round, Val. Fl. 6, 63.—Pass., Plin. 13, 12, 26, § 83: hortus fontano umore percurritur,Pall. 1, 6.
* Neutr., to run, run along to or over any thing (class.): curriculo percurre (ad villam),run thither quickly,Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 11: ad forum,id. And. 2, 2, 18: ad aliquem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 4: per temonem (currūs),to run along the pole,Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin.: per mare et terras,Lucr. 6, 668.
* To run over in speaking, to mention cursorily: partes, quas modo percucurri,Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52: quae breviter a te percursa sunt,id. ib. 1, 47, 205: multas res oratione,id. Div. 2, 46, 96: omnia poenarum nomina,Verg. A. 6, 627: celebres in eā arte quam maximā brevitate,Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53: modice beneficia,to mention in a cursory manner,Tac. A. 4, 40: paucis, quae cujusque ductu gens,Vell. 2, 38, 1; Juv. 10, 225.
* To run over in the mind or with the eye, to scan briefly, to look over: multa animo et cogitatione, multa etiam legendo,Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218: atque id percurram brevi,id. Div. in Caecil. 32, 94: oculo,to run over,Hor. S. 2, 5, 55: paginas in annalious magistratuum,to run through, to look over,Liv. 9, 18, 12: pugnas,Val. Fl. 6, 600.—Impers. pass., Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328.
* Of feelings, sensations, to run through, penetrate, agitate: omnium pectora occulto metu percurrente,Curt. 4, 12, 14.
* Trop. (very rare), to pass; with per, to run over in speaking, touch upon in succession: nam per omnis civitates quae decumas habent, percurrit oratio mea,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100.
* Act., to run through, hasten through; to pass through, traverse, run over, pass over or along class.; syn. peragro).
* Lit.: percurrere agrum Picenum,Caes. B. C. 1, 15: labro calamos,Lucr. 4, 588: rapido percurrens turbine campos,id. 1, 273: pollice chordas,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27: conventus,Hirt. B. G. 8, 46: Tenchteros et Cattos,Flor. 4, 12: aristas,to speed over,Ov. M. 10, 655: percurrens luna fenestras,Prop. 1, 3, 31: pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; id. G. 1, 294: ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos,id. A. 8, 392: tempora nodo, i. e. to wind or bind round, Val. Fl. 6, 63.—Pass., Plin. 13, 12, 26, § 83: hortus fontano umore percurritur,Pall. 1, 6.
* Neutr., to run, run along to or over any thing (class.): curriculo percurre (ad villam),run thither quickly,Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 11: ad forum,id. And. 2, 2, 18: ad aliquem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 4: per temonem (currūs),to run along the pole,Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin.: per mare et terras,Lucr. 6, 668.
* To run over in speaking, to mention cursorily: partes, quas modo percucurri,Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52: quae breviter a te percursa sunt,id. ib. 1, 47, 205: multas res oratione,id. Div. 2, 46, 96: omnia poenarum nomina,Verg. A. 6, 627: celebres in eā arte quam maximā brevitate,Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53: modice beneficia,to mention in a cursory manner,Tac. A. 4, 40: paucis, quae cujusque ductu gens,Vell. 2, 38, 1; Juv. 10, 225.
* To run over in the mind or with the eye, to scan briefly, to look over: multa animo et cogitatione, multa etiam legendo,Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218: atque id percurram brevi,id. Div. in Caecil. 32, 94: oculo,to run over,Hor. S. 2, 5, 55: paginas in annalious magistratuum,to run through, to look over,Liv. 9, 18, 12: pugnas,Val. Fl. 6, 600.—Impers. pass., Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328.
* Of feelings, sensations, to run through, penetrate, agitate: omnium pectora occulto metu percurrente,Curt. 4, 12, 14.
* Trop. (very rare), to pass; with per, to run over in speaking, touch upon in succession: nam per omnis civitates quae decumas habent, percurrit oratio mea,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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