To run againe: to go or runne againe quickly. Iam huc recurret. Te. He wil come againe hither by and by. Recurrere cursum. Plaut. Ad me statim iussi recurrere. Ci. I bad him by and by make speede to me againe. Recurrentes in arcem. Liu. Recurrit eôdem, vbi primò peperit. Col. Ad eam rationem recurrunt. Quint. They haue recourse againe to the same reason. Aqua versa recurret ad fontem. Ouid. Et metuit ne recurrat hyems. Ouid. Luna recurrit. Tibull. Ad initia recurrere Luna dicitur. Cice. To come where shee firste was: to beginne newe. Opus incœptum sæpe recurrit. Ouid.

I. Lit.: ego ad anum recurro rursum, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 50; cf.: recurrit rursus ad Hispalim Caesar, Auct. B. Hisp. 40 fin.: ad me, Cic. Att. 2, 11, 1; Hor. Epod. 5, 75; cf. id. S. 2, 6, 31: ad raedam, Cic. Mil. 10, 29: in Tusculanum, id. Att. 13, 47 fin.: in arcem, Liv. 4, 55: rure, Hor. S. 1, 2, 127: recipe te et recurre, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 8: jam huc recurret, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 10: luna tum crescendo, tum defectionibus in initia recurrendo, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50; cf. Tib. 2, 4, 18: ad fontem Xanthi versa recurret aqua, Ov. H. 5, 30; cf.: in suos fontes versa aqua, id. Am. 2, 1, 26.—Poet., of the revolving of the sun, Verg. A. 7, 100; and of the year, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 147.—With a homogeneous object: coeptum saepe recurrat iter, Ov. A. A. 3, 360. —

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to come back, turn back, return, revert, recur: cur posteris amplior honor quam majoribus haberetur? curve non retro quoque recurreret aequitas eadem? Plin. Pan. 38 fin.; cf. Quint. 5, 9, 6: naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 24: mox Bruma recurrit iners, id. C. 4, 7, 12; cf.: recurrat versa hiems, Ov. F. 2, 854: valetudines anniversariae ac tempore certo recurrentes, Suet. Aug. 81: ad easdem conditiones, Caes. B. C. 2, 16 fin.; cf.: uti eo recurrant, id. ib. 85, 4: cum ea unde generata, quo recurrant, viderit, whither they return, Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 61; Vell. 2, 4, 7. — With dat.: haec appellatio memoriae recurret, will recur to memory, Plin. Pan. 88 fin. (with admoneri and recordari): recurrentes versus = reciproci, Sid. Ep. 8, 11; 9, 14. —

B. In partic., pregn., to have recourse to, to resort, recur to any thing (very rare; usu. decurro, q. v.): ad eam rationem recurrunt, ut, etc., Quint. 1, 6, 13; so, ad eos auctores, etc., id. prooem. 17.