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con-curso , āre,
I.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),” Cic. 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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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