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.