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.—