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I. To run different ways, to run to and fro, run about (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; in Cic not at all): in muris armata civitas, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 3: “deus in montibus altis,” Ov. F. 2, 285: “plebs pileata tota Urbe,” Suet. Ner. 57: “circa deum delubra,” Liv. 26, 9; cf.: “circa vias,” id. 25, 9: “per omnes silvas,” Ov. M. 14, 419; cf.: “per ambitum lacus,” Suet. Claud. 21; and: “per Baianum sinum equis,” id. Calig. 19: “more victorum cum palma discucurrit,” id. ib. 32 et saep.—Designating the term. ad quem: “ad portas,” Liv. 25, 37; Verg. A. 12, 577: “ad arma,” Liv. 5, 36: “ad praedam,” Curt. 4, 15: “ad officia,” Petr. 114: “ad rapiendas virgines,” Liv. 1, 9 et saep.: “in latera,” Front. Strat. 2, 3, 10; cf.: “a media in utramque partem,” Quint. 2, 4, 15.—Pass. impers.: “ilicet in muros tota discurritur urbe,” Verg. A. 11, 468: “in tribus ad suffragium ferendum,” Liv. 25, 2: “ab caede ad diripiendam urbem,” id. 27, 16 al.— “In the pass., with a homogeneous subject: discursis magnis itineribus,” Amm. 29, 5.—

B. Of inanimate and abstract subjects: “discurrentes maculae in gemma,” Plin. 37, 1, 3, § 5; 13, 21, 37, § 117: “catenae circa latera,” id. 33, 3, 12, § 40 al.: “(Nilus) diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora,” Verg. G. 4, 291; Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 182: “fama tota urbe discurrit,” Curt. 4, 1: “mens discurret utroque,” Ov. R. Am. 443.—

II. Transf., to traverse, run through or over, hasten through (post-class.): “latius arva,” Avien. Descr. Orb. 516: “Gallias,” Amm. 15, 5, 4: “tramite aliquo discurso,” id. 16, 2, 10: “discursis itineribus magnis,” id. 29, 5, 17.—

III. Trop., like Gr. διελθεῖν, to speak at length of a thing, to discourse of (post-class.): “super quo nunc pauca discurram,” Amm. 17, 4 (cf. in this sense the Romance discorrere, discourir, and v. 2, discursus, II.).

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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- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 36
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.419
- Vergil, Aeneid, 11.468
- Vergil, Aeneid, 12.577
- Vergil, Georgics, 4.291
- Suetonius, Nero, 57
- Caesar, Civil War, 3.105.3
- Suetonius, Caligula, 19
- Suetonius, Caligula, 32
- Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 21
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 33.40
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.5
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 9
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 2
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 37
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 34, 37
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 7.32
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 25
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 27, 16
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 9
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 9
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 4.15
- Seneca, Epistulae, 90.36
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.1
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.15
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.15.10
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.15.5
- Ovid, Fasti, 2

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