Persulto, persultas, persultâre, Ex per & salto frequentatiuo verbi Salio. Li. To leape and skip for ioy, properly in beasts.Exercitu campos persultante. Tacir. Equis leuibus persultare. Lilius.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-sulto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [salto], to leap, skip, or prance about in a place (not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit.A.Neutr.: in agro, Liv. 34, 20: solo stabili, id. 44, 9: ante vallum, Tac. A. 4, 47: notis vadis, id. H. 5, 15: super durata glacie stagna, Sen. Prov. 4, 12.—B.Act., to leap or skip through, to frisk about, range about a place: pecudes persultant pabula, Lucr. 1, 15: captam Italiam, Tac. H. 3, 49: campos exercitu, id. A. 11, 9: maria (Tritonum catervae), App. M. 4, p. 157, 2.—II.Transf., of the voice. A.Neutr., to sound, resound: vox persultat, Prud. Hamart. 10 praef.—B.Act., to command imperiously: haec persultanti, Prud. stef. 1, 77.