To runne or passe away swifly. Currere per campos. Ouid. Cucurrit puteolos. Cic. Solito velocius currere. Ouid. Currere per vias. Plaut. To runne in the streetes. Aequor vastum caua trabe currimus. Virgil. Wee saile ouer the maine sea in a shippe. Currere cursum, stadium, &c. Cic. Currit iter tutum. Virg. Currere subsidio. Cic. To make speede to succour. Currere in mari naues velociter euntes dicuntur. Virg. To passe away swiftly. Placido currere fluctu. Val. Flac. Aetas currit. Hor. Currunt aues. Apul. Flie apase. Fluuij in freta currunt. Vir. Riuers runne into. Frigus per ossa cucurrit. Ouid. His bones weare, or wared colde. Currit mensura. Liu. Quantóque gradu mors sæua cucurrit. Lucan. Nox inter pocula currat. Prope. Let vs passe ouer this night in drinking. Currit oratio procliuius. Cic. Sententia currat. Horat. Let the sentence bee pronounced in fewe words. Tremor ima per ossa cucurrit. Virg. Versus currunt. Hor. Currit vox. Plin.

A course: a running: a rase. A trade or processe in mens affaires. Fortis cursu. Ouid. Acrior cursus. Stat. Aequorei cursus. Val. Flac. Sailings or voyages on the sea. Aerius cursus. Ouid. Fleeing in the aire. Agiles cursus. Stat. Anhelus cursus. Oui. That maketh one pant or breath thick. Apertus. Stat. A free course without let. Attoniti cursus. Sil. Auidi. Virg. Breuissimus cursus vndis. Virg. Cecus fortunæ cursus. Lucan. The blinde rase of fortune. Celer. Sen. Citus. Sen. Quum contento cursu hostiū classis Italiã peteret. Ci. WhÊ the enimies nauie made greate speede toward Italie. Continenti cursu sequi fugientem. Liui. Continuus cursus. Claud. Decliuis. Lucan. Defrænatus. Ouid. Equestres cursus. Virg. Cursus facilis. Virg. Fulmineus. Claud. A verie swift course. Furente cursu. Sen. Incerto cursu nauigate. Cice. Incitatus cursus. Cic. A swift course. Incitus. Sen. Infracti cursus. Val. Flac. Infrænus cursus. Col. Inoffensus. Sen. A course without stoppe or stay. Inuicti certamine cursus. Ouid. Liber cursus. Liu. Longi cursus. Ouid. Magnus cursus. Sil. Menstrui cursus, Menstrua muliebria. Plinius. The monthly disease of women. Mobilis cursus. Sen. Montiuagi cursus. Sil. Obliqui cursus. Sen. Perpetui cursus, conuersationésque cælestes. Cic. Præceps cursus. Lucan. Præpes cursus equi volucris. Claud. A principe cursu rerum. Val. Flac. From the beginning of the worlde. Propero cursu Ouid. Rapidus cursus. Virg. Rectus Hora. Sollicitus. Claud. A sorrowfull or carefull cause. Summus ille cæli stelliferi cursus. Cic. Tacitus. Ouid. Timidus. Ouid. Tranquillus. Claud. Trepidus. Virg. Vagus. Claud. Volucer. Claud. Aduertere curíus. Ouid. To turne his voyage or iourney towarde. Æquare cursus. Sil. Agitare cursu aliquem. Virg. Agere cursum. Sen. To runne on or haue his course. Astra æterna agant cursus inoffensos. Sen. Aperire cursus. Sen. Capessere cursÛ. Pli. To begin to run: to take vp a running. Collatis cursibus. Val. Flac. Running one against the other to fight. Circunflectere cursus. Virg. Consirus insano cursu. Oui. Conficere cursum aliquem. Cic. To end a rase. Constituere cursus. Quint. Cursu contendere. Virg. To contend in running: to runne for the prize. Contingere metam cursu. Hor. Conuerso relegam vestigia cursu. Claud. Corripere cursum. Liu. Currere cursum. Cic. Quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi. Virg. I haue finished the rase that fortune hath giuen me. Cursum in medios rapidus dedit. Virg. Defatigari cursu. Cæs. Delabi cursu. Ouid. Detorquere cursum ad aliquem. Virg. Deprensus cursu. Sen. Dirigere cursum aliquò. Virg. Distare longo cursu. Virg. Ducere cursus. Virg. Cursu se exercere. Plaut. To exercise in running. Cursu eunt in eam sententiam. Plin. They all readily condiscende to that opinion. Errare incerto curso. Sen. Sollicito errare cursu. Claud. Euadere cursu. Virg. Præpeti cursu euolat. Sen. Excurimur cursu. Virg. Wee be turned out of our voyage or iourney. Exhaustus cursu. Lucan. Cleane wearied with running. Explicare cursum celerem citatis passibus. Seneca. To make great haste: to runne very swift. Extendere cursus. Virg. Libero cursu ferri. Liu. Figere cursum. Stat. Flectere cursus aliquò. Claud. Flectere in læuum cursus. Ouid. Fluere cursibus obliquis. Ouid. To runne crookedwise. Frangere gyro cursum. Lucan. To runne rounde. Frænare cursus aquarum glacie. Virg. Timido cursu fugere. Ouid. Mobili cursu fugit. Senec. Habere cursum. Quint. Impediunt curlum vndæ. Ouid. Impedire vestigia cursu. Virg. Fatorum impellere cursum. Lucan. Inclinare cursum. Ouid. Inire. Cic. To begin to runne. Instituere. Terent. Instruere equorum cursus. Virg. Iungere cursum equis. Liu. To runne as fast as horses. Labat incerto limite cursus. Stat. In liquido aere librare cursus. Ouid. To flie in the cleare ayre. Peragere cursum. Virg. Petere alium cursum. Cic. Petere cursu locum aliquem. Virg. To runne to a place. Preterire hos & illos cursu. Virg. To out runne nowe these, now them. Auras prouocare cursibus. Virg. To run as swift as the minde. Quatere aliquem cursu. Virg. Rapere cursus. Senec. Hastily to set on running. Rapit cæli per inania cursum. Claud. Regere cursus. Virg. Reuocare curfum sanguinis. Cels. To drawe backe the course of the bloud againe. Æquoreos cursus tendere. Val. Flac. Repetere cursum. Senec. To begin his rase againe. Flumina cursus suos requierunt. Virg. Riuers rested, or stayed their running. Reuocare aliquem è cursu. Cic. Esse in cursu. Cic. To be in his race. Vides in quo cursu sumus. Cic. Thou seest in what trade, rase or course we are. Canem iuperare cursu. Horat. To runne faster. Supprimere habenas cursus aerij. Ou. To rest or stay his flying. Tendere cursum per iuga. Claud. To runne ouer the mountaynes. Tendere cursu aliquò. Virg. To runne towarde. Cursum tenere. Cic. To keepe on his purposed rase. Torquet medios nox humida cursus. Virg. Night had past hir middle rase: it was past midnight. Cursu lampada tradere, Prouerbium. Vide LAMPAS. Transit equum cursu. Virg. He ouerranne the horse. Transinittunt cursu campos. Virg. They runne ouer. Valere cursu pedum. Virg. To be swifte of foote. Venire magno cursu. Sil. To come a great pace. Vertere cursus. Virg. Cursus ad. Cic. Omnis omnium cursus est ad vos. All resort or runne to you. Cursus in. Cic. Mihi cursus in Græciam est. Animi & industriæ cursus. Cic. The rase of. Abijt animus in varios cursus. Vide ABEO. Emeriti cursus anni. Ouid. Auium cursus. Apul. Aquarum cursus. Virg. Cursum beneuolentiæ sustinere. Cic. To stay the course of his liberalitie. Diurni cursus. Ouid. Fatorum cursus. Lucan. Cursus honorum. Cic. The whole rase of honours. Ad honorem eo cursu venit qui semper patuit omnibus. Cic. He came to promotion by that way and meanes, as was euer open to all men. Cursus lunæ. Liu. Menstruus cursus Lunæ. Catul. Perspicis qui cursus retum, qui exitus futurus sit. Cic. You see in what trade or sorte things will proceede, and to what issue or ende they will come. Syderum cursus. Cic. Cossusvitæ. Cic. The rase of ones life. Implicari cerro genere, cursúque viuendi. Cic. To be already in a certaine kinde and trade of life. Impleve cursum vitæ. Plin. To finish. Vitæ breuis cursus: gloriæ, sempiternus. Cic. Vocis cursus per omnes sonos. Cic. Cursus, pro modo viuendi. Plin. iun. Tenes Cæsar hunc cursum. You are in that trade or maner of doing. Magno cursu contexere verba. Iuuenal.

I. Lit.

A. Of living beings: si ingrederis curre, si curris advola, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3: propere, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 56: per vias, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 24: per totum conclave pavidi, Hor. S. 2, 6, 113: circum loculos, id. ib. 2, 3, 147: subsidio, Cic. Att. 12, 3, 2; Prop. 2 (3), 26, 17 al.: in nostros toros, id. 3, 20 (4, 19), 10 et saep.: ad villam praecipitanter, Lucr. 3, 1063: per omne mare nautae, Hor. S. 1, 1, 30: trans mare, id. Ep. 1, 11, 27: extremos ad Indos mercator, id. ib. 1, 1, 45; cf.: injecto ter pulvere curras (nauta), id. C. 1, 28, 36 al.: sed neque currentem se nec cognoscit euntem, his former strength, Verg. A. 12, 903: ad vocem praeceps amensque cucurri, Ov. M. 7, 844.—With acc. of distance: uno die MCCCV. stadia, Plin. 7, 20, 20, 84; cf. in a figure: eosdem cursus, Cic. Agr. 2, 17, 44; cf. b infra.—Poet., of flight: medio ut limite curras, Icare, moneo, Ov. M. 8, 203.—With inf.: quis illam (dextram) osculari non curreret? Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.—Impers.: ad me curritur, Ter. Heaut. prol. 44: curritur ad praetorium, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, 92: quo curratur celeriter, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 30 al.—

(b). Rarely with the homogeneous objects iter, stadium, campus, etc.: qui stadium currit, who runs a race, Cic. Off. 3, 10, 42: currimus aequor, Verg. A. 3, 191; 5, 235 (cf. id. ib. 5, 862).—Hence pass.: unde et campus curritur et mare navigatur, Auct. ap. Quint. 1, 4, 28.—

b. Prov.: currentem incitare or instigare, etc., to spur a willing horse, i. e. to urge one who needs no urging, Cic. Phil. 3, 8, 19; id. Fam. 15, 15, 3; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, 45: facilius est currentem, ut aiunt, incitare quam commovere languentem, id. de Or. 2, 44, 186; Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 15; cf. ellipt.: quod me hortaris ... currentem tu quidem, Cic. Att. 13, 45, 2; so, currentem hortari, id. ib. 5, 9, 1; 6, 7, 1: currenti calcaria addere, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 1: asellum currere doceas, i. e. you labor to no purpose, Hor. S. 1, 1, 91: per flammam, to go through fire, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62.—

B. Transf., of inanimate objects (mostly poet.): sol currens, Lucr. 5, 682; of liquids: amnes in aequora currunt, Verg. A. 12, 524; id. ib. 1, 607; Ov. M. 8, 597; Auct. B. Hisp. 29 al.: currente rotā, Hor. C. 3, 10, 10; id. A. P. 22; Ov. P. 4, 9, 10: quam (chlamydem) circum Purpura cucurrit, Verg. A. 5, 250; cf. Stat. Th. 2, 98: rubor per ora, Verg. A. 12, 66 et saep.: linea per medium, Plin. 18, 34, 77, 331: limes per agrum, id. 18, 33, 76, 326; 2, 108, 112, 243 and 245: vox currit conchato parietum spatio, id. 11, 51, 112, 270: varius per ora cucurrit Ausonidum turbata fremor, Verg. A. 11, 296: carmina dulci modulatione currentia, Lact. 5, 1, 10; of the eyes: oculi currentes, huc illucque directi et furiose respicientes, Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 7, 2, p. 281 Garet.—

II. Trop.: non quo multa parum communis littera currat, not but that they have many letters in common, Lucr. 2, 692: proclivi currit oratio, venit ad extremum, haeret in salebrā, runs, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: historia currere debet ac ferri, Quint. 9, 4, 18: cum debeant sublimia ingredi, acria currere, id. 9, 4, 139: numeri, id. 9, 4, 31; cf. rhythmi, id. 9, 4, 50: versus incomposito pede, Hor. S. 1, 10, 1: sententia, id. ib. 1, 10, 9: currit ferox Aetas, flies away, passes, id. C. 2, 5, 13.—

B. With acc., to run, traverse (cf. I. b. supra): eosdem cursus currere, to adopt the same policy, Cic. Agr. 2, 17, 44: talia saecla, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis Concordes Parcae, Verg. E. 4, 46 (al. regard saecla as voc.; al. take currite as transitive, produce such ages, cause them to be such, as ye run; cf. Forbig ad loc.).

I. Lit.

1. Of living beings: ingressus, cursus, accubitio, etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94: ibi cursu, luctando ... sese exercebant, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24; cf. id. Most. 1, 2, 73, and Hor. A. P. 412: quique pedum cursu valet, etc., Verg. A. 5, 67: cursu superare canem, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 51: milites cursu exanimati, Caes. B. G. 2, 23: huc magno cursu intenderunt, at full speed, id. ib. 3, 19: magno cursu concitatus, id. B. C. 1, 70: cursu incitatus, id. ib. 1, 79; 3, 46; Auct. B. Alex. 20; cf.: in cursu esse, Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1; cf. II. fin. infra: strictis gladiis cursu in hostem feruntur, advance at a run, Liv. 9, 13, 2: effuso cursu, id. 2, 50, 6: eo cursu proripere, ut, etc., id. 24, 26, 12; 31, 21, 6: eo cursu, Auct. B. Alex 30: eodem cursu contendere, right onward, Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf. id. B. G. 6, 67: citato cursu. Just. 11, 15, 2: cursus in Graeciam per tuam provinciam, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 10: quis umquam tam brevi tempore tot loca adire, tantos cursus conficere potuit? id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34: (terrae) tuis non dicam cursibus, sed victoriis lustratae sunt, id. ib. 2, 5: agmen cursūs magis quam itineris modo ducit, Curt. 5, 13, 5; 6, 1, 12; Just. 15, 3, 11; 11, 8, 2: Miltiades cursum direxit, quo tendebat, Nep. Milt. 1, 6; Vell. 2, 19, 4; 1, 4, 1: Ulixi per mare, Hor. C. 1, 6, 7: iterare cursus relictos, id. ib. 1, 34, 4: Naxon, ait Liber, cursus advertite vestros, Ov. M. 3, 636 et saep.; cf. B.: cursum per auras Derigere, Verg. A. 6, 194; so of flying, Ov. M. 2, 838; 4, 787 al.—

b. Cursum tenere (in a march or on shipboard), to hold one's course, to maintain a direct course: equites cursum tenere atque insulam capere non potuerant, Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.: Dionysius cum secundissimo vento cursum teneret, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83; Caes. B. G. 5, 8; cf. 2. b. —

2. Of inanimate objects: solis cursus lunaeque meatus Expediam, Lucr. 5, 77; cf. id. 5, 772 al.: lunae, id. 5, 629; cf. id. 5, 630: stellarum, Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17: neque clara suo percurrere fulmina cursu Perpetuo possint, Lucr. 1, 1003: si lacus emissus lapsu et cursu suo ad mare profluxisset, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100; so of the course or flow of a stream, Ov. M. 1, 282; 9, 18; Plin. 5, 24, 20, 85: longarum navium, Caes. B. G. 5, 8; cf. Cic. Mur. 15, 33; id. Off. 3, 12, 50 al.: Aquilonis et Austri, Lucr. 5, 688; cf. id. 6, 302: menstrui, Plin. 11, 39, 94, 230: quadripertiti venarum, id. 16, 39, 76, 195 et saep.—

b. Cursum tenere, as supra, 1. b.: tanta tempestas subito coorta est, ut nulla earum (navium) cursum tenere posset, Caes. B. G. 4, 28.—

B. Meton.

1. Cursum exspectare, to wait for a fair wind (lit. for a passage), Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1.—

2. (Abstr. pro concr.) Cursus publici, in the time of the emperors, posts or relays divided into stations, for the speedy transmission of information upon state affairs, Cod. Just. 12, 51; Cod. Th. 8, 5; Inscr. Orell. 3181; 3329; cf.. equi publici, Amm. 14, 6, 16: vehicula publica, id. 21, 13, 7: cursus vehicularius, Capitol. Ant. P. 12, 3: vehicularis, Dig. 50, 4, 18, 4: cursus fiscalis, Spart. Had. 7; v. Suet. Aug. 49.—

II. Trop. (freq. in Cic. and Quint.), a course, progress, direction, way: qui cursus rerum, qui exitus futurus sit, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 3; cf. Tac. H. 4, 34; id. Agr. 39: implicari aliquo certo genere cursuque vivendi, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117: vitae brevis cursus, gloriae sempiternus, id. Sest. 21, 47: reliquus vitae cursus, id. Phil. 2, 19, 47: totius vitae cursum videre, id. Off. 1, 4, 11: omnem vitae suae cursum conficere, id. Cael. 17, 39: in omni vitae cursu optimum visum est, ut, etc., Macr. S. 1, 2, 3: temporum, Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 2: tuorum honorum, id. ib. 3, 11, 2; cf. Tac. H. 1, 48: continuus proeliorum, id. Agr. 27 al.: cursus vocis per omnis sonos, Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 227: cursus verborum, id. ib. 1, 35, 161; so of the motion or flow of discourse, etc., id. Part. Or. 15, 52; Quint. 8, prooem. 27; 9, 4, 70: cursus hic et sonus rotundae volubilisque sententiae, Gell. 11, 13, 4: quem enim cursum industria mea tenere potuisset sine forensibus causis, etc., Cic. Phil. 8, 4, 11; cf. id. Or. 1, 4: nos in eodem cursu fuimus a Sullā dictatore ad eosdem fere consules, id. Brut. 96, 328; so, esse in cursu, to go on, continue, Ov. M. 13, 508; id. F. 6, 362.