excursor

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.