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obvĕnĭentĭa, ae, f. [obvenio], chance, accident (eccl. Lat.), Tert. adv. Valent. 29.

ob-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4, v. n.

  1. 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.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.