concursatio

concursātĭo, ōnis, f. [concurso].

I.

A running together, a disorderly meeting:

cum multā concursatione (populi),

Cic. Brut. 69, 242; Tac. A. 6, 17.—

B.

Trop.: inventus est ordo in stellis... cedo tandem qui sit ordo aut quae concursatio somniorum? what coincidence? i. e. what concert of motion that can express a design? Cic. Div. 2, 71, 146.—

II.

A running upon, pushing against one another:

concursatio in obscuro incidentium aliorum in alios incertum fecerat, an, etc.,

Liv. 41, 2, 6.—

III.

A running about, going to and fro, etc.:

quid ego hujus lacrimas et concursationes proferam?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 75 Zumpt ad loc.:

et in Albaniā et Seplasiā quae concursatio percunctantium, quid, etc.,

id. Agr. 2, 34, 94:

puerorum illa concursatio nocturna,

id. Dom. 6, 14:

Libonis et Hypsaei non obscura concursatio et contentio,

id. Fam. 1, 1, 3:

(mulierum) concursatio incerta nunc hos nunc illos sequentium,

Liv. 5, 40, 3; cf. id. 35, 49, 9:

decemviralis,

a travelling over the provinces, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 8:

concursationes ad divitias euntium sapiens securus laetusque ridebit,

Sen. Ep. 17, 9.—

2.

In milit. lang., the skirmishing of light-armed troops, Liv. 30, 34, 2; Curt. 8, 14, 13.—

B.

Trop., an anxious, troubled restlessness, anxiety:

exagitatae mentis,

Sen. Ep. 3, 5.