The corpus record — Latin

excursor

excursor · m

A skirmisher

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Where it lives

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

excursor — Lewis & Short

excursor, ōris, m.excurro, I. A. b..

I A skirmisher, scout, spy: paratissimus pro nobis, Val. Max. 7, 3, 7: istius excursor et emissarius, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 22.—

B Transf.: excursores venti habentur, qui directo spiritu proflant, App. de Mundo, p. 62, 20 (p. 259 Bip.).—

II In gen., i. q. cursor, Inscr. ap. Don. 315, 7.

In the wild

excursorem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.3.7
excursor Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.22

Where it came from

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