(verb) : suc-curro (subc-), curri, cursum, 3
* To run under.
* Lit.
* In gen.: tempore eodem aliud nequeat succurrere lunae Corpus, * Lucr. 5, 763; cf.: pagus Succusanus, quod succurrit Carinis, runs, i. e. lies under or behind, Varr. L. L. 5, § 48 Müll.
* Trop. *
* Of things, to be useful for, good against: tantis malis,Caes. B. C. 3, 70. — Esp., of medicines: cannabis succurrit alvo jumentorum,helps, relieves,Plin. 20, 23, 97, § 259: strangulationibus (crethmos),id. 26, 15, 90, § 158: venenis fungorum (nitrum),id. 31, 10, 46, § 119: dum succurrere humanis erroribus cupiunt, ipsi se in errores maximos induxerunt, Lact. 1, 3, 8.—Impers. pass.: se confidere munitionibus oppidi, si celeriter succurratur,Caes. B. C. 3, 80; 3, 52; Liv. 3, 58; Cels. 8, 4; Plin. 23, 1, 27, § 56; Quint. 10, 7, 2: paratae lites: succurrendum'st,Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 6.
* In gen.: licet undique omnes in me terrores periculaque impendeant omnia, succurram atque subibo,I will encounter and undergo them,Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31.
* In partic., to come into the mind, occur to one (class.; esp. freq. after the Aug. period; syn. subit): ut quidque succurrit, libet scribere,Cic. Att. 14, 1, 2: illud etiam mihi succurrebat, grave esse, etc., id. fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6: alicui,Liv. 6, 12; Quint. 3, 4, 6; 8, 3, 81 et saep.: succurrit versus ille Homericus, etc., Aug. ap. Suet. Tib. 21 fin.—Impers.: non succurrit tibi, quamdiu circum Bactra haereas,Curt. 7, 8, 21: neque cuiquam facile succurrat,Suet. Tit. 10.—With inf.: et illud annotare succurrit, unum omnino, etc.,Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 157: mirari succurrit,id. 17, 1, 1, § 1; 34, 18, 51, § 171.