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per-curro , percŭcurri or percurri, percursum, 3, v. a. and n.
I. Act., to run through, hasten through; to pass through, traverse, run over, pass over or along class.; syn. peragro).
B. Trop., to run through: “amplissimos honores percucurrit,” i. e. filled the highest offices one after another, Suet. Ner. 3: “quaesturam, praeturam,id. Tib. 9; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 7.—In pass.: “percursis honorum gradibus,Amm. 15, 13, 2.—
2. 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 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.—
3. 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.—
4. Of feelings, sensations, to run through, penetrate, agitate: “omnium pectora occulto metu percurrente,Curt. 4, 12, 14. —
II. 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.—
B. 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.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 8.16.4
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 4.33
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 8.46
    • Cicero, Divinatio against Q. Caecilius, 32.94
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.100
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 18
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.655
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.14
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.392
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.627
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.294
    • Horace, Satires, 2.5.55
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.15
    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.40
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.50
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.80
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.14
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.588
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.273
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.668
    • Suetonius, Nero, 3
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 9
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.53
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.14.7
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.46
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.600
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.63
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.12.14
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