concurso

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

con-curso, āre, v. freq. n. and a.

I To come violently together, to rush together, clash : concursare, coire et dissultare vicissim (semina), Lucr. 3, 396.—Far more freq. and class.,

II To go to and fro, run about, rush hither and thither, travel about (cf. commeo).

A Neutr. : nunc hinc, nunc illinc, Lucr. 2, 215: Titurius trepidare, concursare, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 33: concursabant barbatuli juvenes, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5: dies noctesque, id. Rosc. Am. 29, 81; Liv. 4, 6, 9; 5, 8, 8: circum tabernas, Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17: per viam, Liv. 9, 24, 12: cum concursant ceteri praetores, to travel about (corresp. with tempus in itineribus consumere), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29; and impers. pass. : in his administrandis rebus quam maxime concursari jubet, Caes. B. G. 5, 50. —

2 In milit. lang., to skirmish : in proelio, Liv. 28, 2, 7; cf. concursatio, III. 2., and concursator.—

B Act. : concursare aliquid, to rove or ramble somewhere, to visit a place, to frequent (only in Cic.; sometimes interchanged with circumcurso; v. h. v.): cum jam hoc novo more omnes fere domos omnium concursent, to go from house to house , Cic. Mur. 21, 44: concursare et obire provinciam (praetores), id. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 80; cf. the preced.: concursare omnium mortalium non modo lectos, verum etiam grabatos, id. Div. 2, 63, 129; cf.: concursare lecticula mecum, id. Fam. 7, 1, 5.

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