The corpus record — Latin

decursio

decursio · f

a running

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

dēcursĭo — Lewis & Short

dēcursĭo, ōnis, f.decurro,

I a running or flowing down (less freq. than decursus; not in Cic.).

I In gen.: aquae, Arn. 2, p. 84.—

II In partic., milit. t. t., a manœuvre, military exercise, evolution, a descent, hostile attack, Brutus ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 4; Hirt. B. G. 8, 24, 3; Auct. B. Alex. 42.—Hence,

B Transf., a walking or running in complete armor at a solemnity or for exercise, Suet. Calig. 18; id. Galb. 6.

In the wild

decursio Tertullian, De Anima 24
decursionibus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 11.10.4
decursione Suetonius, C. Caligula 18.3
decursionem Suetonius, Galba 6.3
decursione Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.24.3
decursiones Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 42

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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