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Latin > English

cursor cursoris N M :: cursor (of an instrument)
cursor cursor cursoris N M :: runner; chariot-racer; courier/carrier/messenger; footman (run before carriage)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

cursor: ōris, m. id.,
I a runner, and partic.,
   A A runner in a race, racer, Lucr. 2, 78; Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 56; id. Div. 2, 70, 144; also a competitor in a chariot-race: ut cupidi cursor frena retentat equi, Ov. P. 3, 9, 26.—
   B A courier, post (mostly postAug.), Nep. Milt. 4, 3 (transl. of the Gr. ἡμεροδρόμος); Plin. 2, 71, 73, § 181; Plin. Ep. 7, 12 fin.; Suet. Ner. 49; Mart. 3, 100, 1 al.—
   C A slave who ran before the chariot of a grandee, a forerunner (post-Aug.), Sen. Ep. 87, 9; 123, 7; Suet. Ner. 30; Mart. 3, 47, 14. —
II Trop.: cursor iambus, Rufin. Rhet. p. 355 Capperon.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) cursŏr,¹² ōris, m. (curro), coureur [disputant le prix de la course] : Cic. Tusc. 2, 56 || conducteur de char : Ov. P. 3, 9, 26 || courrier, messager : Nep. Milt. 4, 3 ; Suet. Nero 49, 2 || coureur, esclave qui précède la litière ou la voiture du maître : Sen. Ep. 87, 9 ; 123, 7.

Latin > German (Georges)

cursor, ōris, m. (curro), der Läufer, Schnelläufer, I) eig.: a) als Wettläufer: cursor ad Olympia proficisci cogitans, Cic.: cursor cretam prior contingit, Sen.: quomodo palaestricus ille (magister) cursorem faciet, Quint.: grex cursorum cum magistro se exercens, Petron.: in stadio cursores exclamant quam maxime possunt, Cic.: quasi cursores vitae lampada tradunt, Lucr. (s. lampasno. I, 1 das Nähere). – b) als Eilbote, Postbote, citus cursor, Hieron. comment. in eccles. p. 420 Vall.: cursor eius generis, qui hemerodromoe (ἡμεροδρόμοι, Tagläufer) vocantur, Nep.: perlati a cursore Phaontis codicilli, Suet.: cursorem mittere ad alqm, qui nuntiet alqd, Suet.: datā operā cursorem dimittere, einen besonderen Boten, einen Eilboten absenden, Plin. ep.: momenta ipsa deficientis per dispositos cursores nuntiata constabat, Tac. – c) als Vorläufer vor dem Wagen od. vor der Sänfte (oft neben den Numidae, numidischen Vorreitern, gen.), armillata et phalerata Mazacum (mauretan. Vorreiter) turba et cursorum, Suet.: omnes iam sic peregrinantur, ut illos Numidarum praecurrat equitatus, ut agmen cursorum antecedat, Sen.: in via cursores et Numidas ante se agere, Sen.: lecticae impositus est praecedentibus phaleratis cursoribus quattuor, Petron. – II) übtr., Beiname des L. Papirius, Liv. 9, 15, 9 u.a.