The corpus record — Latin

recurso

to run

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕcurso — Lewis & Short

rĕcurso, āre,

I v. freq. n. [recurro], to run or hasten back; to come back, return (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: quid ego huc recursem? * Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 34: (corpora) dissiliunt longe, longeque recursant, * Lucr. 2, 106.—

II Trop.: urit atrox Juno et sub noctem cura recursat, Verg. A. 1, 662: curae, id. ib. 12, 802: multa viri virtus animo . . . recursat, recurs again to her mind, id. ib. 4, 3: animo vetera omina, Tac. H. 2, 78: in animos illa audacia, Eum. Pan. Const. 18.

In the wild

recursat Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.102.30
recursem Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1
recursat Silius Italicus, Punica 2.519
recursans Statius, Thebais 1.316
recursat Silius Italicus, Punica 6.555
recursat Vergil, Aeneid 4.3

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.