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cursor , ōris, m. id.,
I.a runner, and partic.,
A. A runner in a race, racer, Lucr. 2, 78; Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 56; id. Div. 2, 70, 144; also a competitor in a chariot-race: “ut cupidi cursor frena retentat equi,” Ov. P. 3, 9, 26.—
B. A courier, post (mostly postAug.), Nep. Milt. 4, 3 (transl. of the Gr. ἡμεροδρόμος); Plin. 2, 71, 73, § 181; Plin. Ep. 7, 12 fin.; Suet. Ner. 49; Mart. 3, 100, 1 al.—
C. A slave who ran before the chariot of a grandee, a forerunner (post-Aug.), Sen. Ep. 87, 9; 123, 7; Suet. Ner. 30; Mart. 3, 47, 14. —
II. Trop.: “cursor iambus,” Rufin. Rhet. p. 355 Capperon.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.78
    • Suetonius, Nero, 30
    • Suetonius, Nero, 49
    • Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, 4.3
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.12
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.70
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.23
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 123.7
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 87.9
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 3.9
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