concursio

concursĭo, ōnis, f. [concurro, II.], a running or meeting together, a concurrence, concourse (several times in Cic.; elsewhere rare).

I.

In gen.:

atomorum,

Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 6:

ut (corpora) concursionibus inter se cohaerescant,

id. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

stellarum,

Gell. 14, 1, 29:

crebra vocum,

Cic. Or. 44, 151; cf.:

crebrae vocalium,

Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18:

fortuitorum,

Cic. Top. 20, 76.—

II.

Esp., in rhet., a figure of speech, consisting of an emphatic repetition of the last words of a sentence, Gr. sumplokê:

concursio et impetus in eadem verba,

Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206 (quoted by Quint. 9, 1, 33); cf. Auct. Her. 4, 14, 20.