To run apace: to run stil and reste not: to rum euery foot: to pas or rÛ ouer a thing quickly: to recite a thing briefly or roundly: to tell or reade a thing quickly or apace. Continuo ad te properans percurro ad forum. Ter. By and by I runne euerie foote to you to the market. Curriculo percurrere. Te. To run euerie foote a great pace. Citato equo Cales percurrit. Liu. Percurrit omnem agrum Picenum. Cæs. Cursu percurrere aliquid. Lucr. Telas percurrere pectine. Virg. Percurrere ad aliquem. Cælius ad Ciceronem. Percurrere. Cic. To passe ouer a thing quickly: to recite or speake a thing briefly or roundly. Percurram breui. Cic. I wil recite ouer roundly. Omnia percurrere nomina. Vir. To rehearse ouer quickely al the names. Locos omnes oratoris percurrere. Cicero. Roundly to passe through all the places of oratours inuention. Per omnes ciuitates, quæ decumas debent, percurrit oratio mea. Ci. In fewe words I spake of al those cities, which &c. Hæc pluribus verbis dicerem, quæ nunc paucis percurrit oratio mea. Cic. Which now in fewe words I passe ouer. Quas percurrere oratione facile est. Cic. Animo celeriter aliquid percurrere. Author ad Her. In cogitation of minde quickly to ouerrun a thing. Murmura percurrunt cœlum. Lucr. Percurrere mensas dicitur menta, Plin. To bee a commou sernice on mens tables. Luna percurrens fenestras. Propert. Percurritur, pen. cor. Impersonale. Cicero. Ac nõ ista breuitate percurritur. And is not passed ouer, &c.

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.