I.to leap, skip, or prance about in a place (not in Cic. or Cæs.).
I. Lit.
A. Neutr.: “in agro,” Liv. 34, 20: “solo stabili,” id. 44, 9: “ante vallum,” Tac. A. 4, 47: “notis vadis,” id. H. 5, 15: “super durata glacie stagna,” Sen. Prov. 4, 12.—
B. Act., to leap or skip through, to frisk about, range about a place: “pecudes persultant pabula,” Lucr. 1, 15: “captam Italiam,” Tac. H. 3, 49: “campos exercitu,” id. A. 11, 9: “maria (Tritonum catervae),” App. M. 4, p. 157, 2.—
II. Transf., of the voice.
B. Act., to command imperiously: haec persultanti, Prud. στεφ. 1, 77.