contingo

contingō (1) tigī, tāctus, ere

com-+tango, to touch, reach, take hold of, seize : divae vittas, V.: taurum, O.: dextras consulum (in greeting), L.: cibum rostris: funem manu, V.: terram osculo, L.: me igni, scorch , V.: (nummos) velut sacrum, to meddle with , H.: ut neque inter se contingant trabes, Cs.: ut contingant (milites) inter se, stand close together , Cs.: granum, i. e. taste , H.: aquas, O.— To touch, adjoin, border on, reach, extend to : ripas, Cs.: turri contingente vallum, Cs.: agrum, L.: ripae fluminis, Cs.— To reach, attain, come to, arrive at, meet with, strike : metam cursu, H.: Ephyren pennis, O.: Italiam, V.: auras, to come into the air , O.: avem ferro, to hit , V.: aurīs fando, withacc.and inf., O.— Fig., to touch, seize upon, affect : quos publica contingebat cura, L.: contacti artūs, seized (by disease), V.: quam me libido Contigit! I felt , O.— To be connected with, be related to, touch, concern : tam foede interemptos amicitiā, L.: sanguine caelum, Iu.: deos propius, have more ready access to , H.: haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit, concerns not , L.— To pollute, stain, defile, infest, taint, corrupt (mostly P. perf .): (Gallos) contactos eo scelere, L.: contacta civitas rabie iuvenum, L.: (equi) nullo mortali opere contacti, Ta.: labellis Pocula, Iu.— To attain, reach, arrive at : naturam sui similem.— To happen, befall, fall out, come, take place, turn out, come to pass, occur : tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor, T.: si hoc contigit nemini: quam rem paucis contigisse docebat, Cs.: quod ei merito contigit: cui Omnia contigerant, O.: Quod satis est cui contigit, H.: speciosae (opes) contigerant, he had a respectable fortune , Ta.: ubi quid melius contingit, H.: celeriter antecellere omnibus contigit: Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum, has the luck , H.: Iovis esse nepoti Contigit haud uni, O.: utinam Caesari contigisset, ut esset, etc.