adequito

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

ăd-ĕquĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.

I To ride to or toward a place, to gallop up to. —With ad : equites Ariovisti propius tumulum accedere et ad nostros adequitare, * Caes. B. G. 1, 46.—With in : in primos ordines, Curt. 7, 4, 17.—With the local adv. quo : quo tam ferociter adequitāsset, inde se fundi fugarique, Liv. 9, 22, 6. —With dat.: portis, Liv. 22, 42, 5; so, portae Collinae, Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 76: vallo, Liv. 9, 22, 4: castris, Tac. A. 6, 34.—With acc. of limit : adequitare Syracusas, Liv. 24, 31: perarmatos adequitare coepit, Curt. 4, 9, 14 (Vogel now reads here ad perarmatos ).—

II To ride near to or by : juxta aliquem, Suet. Cal. 25: vehiculo anteire aut circa adequitare, id. Aug. 64.

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