con-curro, curri, cursum, 3 (perf. redupl. concucurrit, Flor. 4, 2, 33 Duker N. cr.: concucurrisse, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 901 P., and Suet. Caes. 15; cf. Liv. 1, 12 Oud., and Ind. Flor. s. h. v. Duker), v. n.
- I. To run together (of several persons), to come or assemble together in multitudes, to rush or flock together in crowds (very freq., and class.).
- A. Prop.
- 1. Absol.: tota Italia concurret, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16: video hac tempestate concurrisse omnis adversarios, Cato ap. Prisc. 10, p. 901 P.: concurrunt jussu meo plures uno tempore librarii, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13: cum omnes, ut mos est, concurrerent, id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65: licet concurrant omnes plebei philosophi, nihil tam eleganter explicabunt, etc., unite, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 55: multi concurrerant, Nep. Dion, 10, 1; Sall. J. 60, 6: concurrite, concurrite, cives, Val. Max. 4, 1, 12.
Impers.: contionem inprimis advocari jubet; summā cum expectatione concurritur, Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 13.
- 2. Designating the place from which, or the place or purpose to or for which: non solum qui in urbe erant, sed etiam undique ex agris concurrerunt, Nep. Pelop. 3, 3: undique gentes, Luc. 3, 321: concurrunt laeti mi obviam cupedinarii omnes, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 25: ad hos (sc. Druides) magnus adulescentium numerus disciplinae causā concurrit, Caes. B. G. 6, 13; cf. Quint. 1, 2, 16: ad eum magnae copiae, Sall. C. 56, 5: ad eum homines omnium ordirum corruptissimi, id. H. 1, 48, 7 Dietsch: ad curiam, Cic. Rab. Post. 7, 18 (corresp. to convolare ad Rostra); Liv. 4, 60, 1; Suet. Tit. 11: domum tuam cuncta civitas, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 80: ad arma milites, Caes. B. G. 3, 22 fin.; so id. ib. 5, 39 fin.: ad non dubiam mortem, Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89: ad auxilium sociae, Luc. 3, 663: signum dedit, ut ad me restituendum Romam concurrerent, Cic. Mil. 15, 39: omnes concurrerunt ad Perdiccam opprimendum, united together, Nep. Eum. 3, 1; id. Phoc. 2, 5: ad aliquem audiendum, Suet. Caes. 32.
Impers.: concurritur undique ad commune incendium restinguendum, Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 21: concurrendum ad curiam putare, id. Rab. Post. 7, 18: cum ad arma concurri oporteret, Caes. B. G. 2, 20: ex proximis castellis eo concursum est, id. ib. 2, 33: concursum ad curiam esse, Liv. 4, 60, 1: Suet. Calig. 6; Quint. 1, 2, 16.
- * b. Poet., to run in attendance upon, to accompany: est quibus Eleae concurrit palma quadrigae, as it were, follows him on foot, accompanies, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 17.
- B. Trop. = confugere, to run for refuge or help, to take refuge (rare): ad C. Aquilium, Cic. Quint. 16, 53 B. and K.: nulla sedes, quo concurrant, Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4: ne darem perditis civibus hominem, quo concurrerent, id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 2, 3: interea servitia repudiabat (Catilina), opibus conjurationis fretus, Sall. C. 56, 5; Just. 19, 1, 9.
- 2. Of words, as under military command: ante enim circumscribitur mente sententia confestimque verba concurrunt, quae mens eadem … statim dimittit, ut suo quodque loco respondeat, Cic. Or. 59, 200.
- II. To run upon one another, to meet or dash together (class.).
- A. Of corporeal objects.
- 1. In gen.: concurrunt nubes ventis, Lucr. 6, 97; cf. id. 6, 116: ne prorae concurrerent, Liv. 37, 30, 4 (al. prorā; cf. Weissenb. ad loc.); cf. id. 44, 42, 5; Luc. 3, 663: mediis concurrere in undis (montes, viz., the Symplegades), Ov. M. 7, 62; cf. id. Am. 2, 11, 3: concurrere montes duo inter se, Plin. 2, 83, 85, § 199: actor cum stetit in scaenā, concurrit dextera laevae (viz., in applauding), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205: labra concurrunt, draw together, close, Sen. Ep. 11, 2: os concurrit, id. Ira, 3, 15, 1; id. Ben. 2, 1, 3: os, Quint. 10, 7, 8; 11, 3, 121.
Transf., of letters and words: aspere concurrunt litterae, Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 172 (opp. diduci); so id. Or. 45, 154.
Hence,
- 2. In partic., milit. t. t., to rush together in hostility, to engage in combat, to join battle, to fight (most freq. in the histt.); constr. inter se, cum aliquo, adversus, in, contra aliquem, alicui, and absol.
- (α) Inter se: concurrunt equites inter se, Caes. B. C. 2, 25; so Liv. 26, 51, 4; 29, 18, 10; Suet. Oth. 12; Verg. G. 1, 489; id. A. 10, 436.
- (β) Cum aliquo: cum hoc concurrit ipse Eumenes, Nep. Eum. 4, 1; so Liv. 8, 8, 15; Vell. 2, 70, 1; Suet. Oth. 10; Ov. M. 13, 87.
- (γ) Adversus, in, or contra aliquem: recenti milite adversus fessos longo itinere concurrerat, Liv. 35, 1, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.: in aliquem, Sall. J. 97, 4; Just. 4, 1, 10: equites contra tantam multitudinem audacissime concurrunt, run upon, against, etc., Auct. B. Afr. 6.
- (δ) Alicui (freq. in the poets): audet viris concurrere virgo, Verg. A. 1, 493; 10, 8; Ov. M. 5, 89; 12, 595 al.: quibus (equitibus) cum inpigre, Numidae concurrissent, Liv. 24, 15, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.
(ε) Absol.: repente Antonius in aciem suas copias de vico produxit et sine morā concurrit, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3: cum infestis signis concurrunt, Sall. C. 60, 2; so Liv. 6, 7, 6; 8, 7, 9 al.; Tac. A. 6, 35; id. H. 2, 42; Suet. Claud. 21: ex insidiis, Liv. 9, 25, 8; 2, 11, 9: mutuis vulneribus, Sen. Suas. 7, 14.
Impers. pass.: ubi propius ventum est, utrimque magno clamore concurritur, Sall. J. 53, 2; so Liv. 10, 40, 13; Hor. S. 1, 1, 7.
Transf.: adversus has concurrentis belli minas, legati vallum murosque firmabant, Tac. H. 4, 22 init.
- b. Not in war; in the jurists, to make the same claim, enter into competition with: si non sit, qui ei concurrat, habeat solus bonorum possessionem, Dig. 37, 1, 2: in hereditatem fratri concurrere, ib. 5, 2, 16: in pignus, ib. 20, 4, 7: in pignore, ib.
- c. Trop. (rare): in tantā causarum varietate cum alia colligantur vel ipsa inter se concurrant, vel in diversum ambiguitate ducantur, Quint. 12, 2, 15: cum dolore, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 2: concurrit illinc publica, hinc regis salus, Sen. Oedip. 830.
- B. Of abstract objects (occurrences, circumstances, points of time, etc.), to meet, concur, fall out at the same time, happen: multa concurrunt simul, Ter. And. 3, 2, 31; so, concurrunt multae opiniones, id. Heaut. 2, 2, 3: tot verisimilia, id. Ad. 4, 4, 19: res contrariae, Cic. Fin. 5, 10, 28: ista casu, id. Div. 2, 68, 141: quae ut concurrant omnia, optabile est, id. Off. 1, 14, 45: saepe concurrunt aliquorum bene de me meritorum inter ipsos contentiones, id. Planc. 32, 78: si quid tale accidisset, ut non concurrerent nomina, that the reciprocal accounts do not meet, become due on the same day, id. Att. 16, 3, 5; cf.: sponsalia in idem tempus, Dig. 3, 2, 13: concurrit actio legis Aquiliae et injuriarum, to have place together, to be coincident, ib. 9, 2, 5.
- 2. Pregn., to accord, agree with (in jurid. Lat.): concurrit cum veritate, Dig. 29, 2, 30: cum summā, ib. 29, 30, 53.