per-curro — Lewis & Short
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).
A Lit.:
percurrere agrum Picenum,Caes. B. C. 1, 15:
labro calamos,Lucr. 4, 588:
rapido percurrens turbine campos,id. 1, 273:
pollice chordas,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27:
conventus,Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:
Tenchteros et Cattos,Flor. 4, 12:
aristas,to speed over, Ov. M. 10, 655:
percurrens luna fenestras,Prop. 1, 3, 31:
pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; id. G. 1, 294:
ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos,id. A. 8, 392: tempora nodo, i. e. to wind or bind round, Val. Fl. 6, 63.—Pass., Plin. 13, 12, 26, § 83:
hortus fontano umore percurritur,Pall. 1, 6.—
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 eā 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.