I.v. dep. a. [comes], to join one's self to any one as an attendant, to accompany, attend, follow (class.; esp. freq. after the Aug. per.); constr. with acc. or absol., with abstr. subjects by Cic. three times (qs. comitem esse) with dat. (v. B. β).
I. In gen.
(α).
With acc.: “propinqui Indutiomari comitati eos ex civitate excesserunt,” Caes. B. G. 6, 8: “matrem,” Lucr. 2, 640: “patrem,” Suet. Calig. 10; Curt. 3, 8, 12: “nautas fugā,” Verg. A. 4, 543: “Metellum in exsilium,” Suet. Gram. 3: “erilem filium in scholas,” id. ib. 23: “hostiam,” Verg. G. 1, 346: “iter alicujus,” id. A. 6, 112: “gressum erilem,” id. ib. 8, 462: “currum Augusti triumpho,” Suet. Tib. 6; id. Dom. 2 fin.: “rem militarem,” Tac. A. 11, 22.—
(β).
Absol. (esp. freq. in the Aug. poets and Tac.): “lanigerae comitantur oves,” Verg. A. 3, 660; Plin. Pan. 24, 3: “sex milia Dalmatarum, recens delectus, comitabantur,” Tac. H. 3, 50; 5, 1; id. G. 46: “non aequo comitantes ordine,” Sil. 4, 31; Dig. 17, 10, 15, § 16.—In the abl. absol. of the part. pres., with the attendance of, attended by, etc., sometimes to be translated by with, together with, and with a negative, without: “magnā comitante catervā,” Verg. A. 2, 40; 11, 498; Curt. 6, 5, 11.—In plur., Nep. Att. 22, 4; Ov. M. 11, 275; 13, 631; Tac. H. 3, 41; Suet. Ner. 48: “domino comitante,” Ov. M. 13, 402: nupsi non comitante deo, without the assent, against the will of the god (Hymen), Prop. 4 (5), 3, 16. —
B. Transf. to inanimate objects (cf. comes, I. B.).
(α).
With acc.: “comitatur fama unionis ejus parem, etc.,” Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 121: “quando comitetur semper artem decor,” Quint. 9, 4, 7; cf. also Curt. 8, 5, 16; Claud. C. Mal. Theod. 243; Dig. 45, 1, 126, § 1.—
(β).
With dat.: “(Tarquinio Superbo) aliquamdiu prospera fortuna comitata est,” Cic. Rep. 2, 24, 44: “tardis enim mentibus virtus non facile comitatur,” id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68: “cetera, quae comitantur huic vitae,” id. ib. 5, 35, 100.—
(γ).
Absol.: “an est aliquid per se ipsum flagitiosum, etiam si nulla comitetur infamia?” Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 60: “Teucrum comitantibus armis Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus!” Verg. A. 4, 48; Ov. M. 14, 235; id. F. 3, 865: “comitante opinione,” Tac. Agr. 9.—
II. In partic., to attend one to the grave: “(Eumenem) comitante toto exercitu humaverunt,” Nep. Eum. 13, 4; id. Att. 22, 4: “juvenem exanimum vano honore,” Verg. A. 11, 52; cf.: “supremum comitentur honorem,” id. ib. 11, 61.
