The corpus record — Latin

percursio

percursio · f

a running through

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Where it lives

Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

percursĭo — Lewis & Short

percursĭo, ōnis, f.percurro,

I a running through or over; trop.,

I A rapid or hasty thinking over a thing: propter animi multarum rerum brevi tempore percursionem, Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 31.—

II Rhet., a rapid or hasty passing over a subject: huic (commorationi) contraria saepe percursio est, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 202.

In the wild

percursio Cicero, De Oratore 3.202
percursionem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.31
percursio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.1.28

Where it came from

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