ob-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4, v. n.
I Lit., to come before or in the way of , to meet (syn.: obviam venio, occurro; perh. only in the foll. passage): se in tempore pugnae obventurum, would come up to the fight , join in the battle , Liv. 29, 34, 8.—
II Transf.
A To come or fall to one; to fall to one's lot; usually referring only to what is accidental, as the result of a lot, etc.: Syria Scipioni, Caes. B. C. 1, 6: legati, quibus hae partes ad defendendum obvenerant, id. B. G. 7, 81: tibi obvenit iste labos, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 40: Aemilio novum bellum in Etruriā sorte obvenit, Liv. 9, 31, 1: cui classis obvenisset, id. 30, 40, 12.—But also in gen.: cum hereditas ei obvenisset, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 19 (dub.; Orell. and B. and K. venisset): si istiusmodi mi fundus hereditate obvenerit, Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 2: cum obvenisset mihi hereditas, Plin. Ep. 7, 11, 6; 3, 6, 1; id. Pan. 40, 1; Just. 38, 5, 4: haud ab re tibi istic obvenit labos, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 40.—
B Still more gen., like obtingere, of an event, to fall out , to befall , happen , occur to one: obvenit occasio, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 15: vitium (at the auspices), Cic. Phil. 2, 33, 83; id. Off. 2, 21, 74: quaecumque obvenissent, Suet. Vesp. 21: obveniens lucrum, Gai. Inst. 3, 151.