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rĕcurso , āre,
I.v. freq. n. [recurro], to run or hasten back; to come back, return (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit.: quid ego huc recursem? * Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 34: (corpora) dissiliunt longe, longeque recursant, * Lucr. 2, 106.—
II. Trop.: “urit atrox Juno et sub noctem cura recursat,” Verg. A. 1, 662: “curae,” id. ib. 12, 802: “multa viri virtus animo . . . recursat,” recurs again to her mind, id. ib. 4, 3: “animo vetera omina,” Tac. H. 2, 78: “in animos illa audacia,” Eum. Pan. Const. 18.
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 (4):
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 3.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.662
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.78
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.106
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