excursor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

excursor, ōris, m. [excurro, I. A. b.].

I A skirmisher , scout , spy : paratissimus pro nobis, Val. Max. 7, 3, 7: istius excursor et emissarius, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 22.—

B Transf.: excursores venti habentur, qui directo spiritu proflant, App. de Mundo, p. 62, 20 (p. 259 Bip.).—

II In gen., i. q. cursor, Inscr. ap. Don. 315, 7.

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