concursus

concursus, ūs, m. [concurro].

I.

A running or flocking together, a concourse, assembly:

fit concursus per vias,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 27; cf. in plur.:

incredibilem in modum concursus fiunt ex agris,

Cic. Att. 5, 16, 3:

magni domum concursus ad Afranium fiebant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 53:

magni concursus sunt facti,

Nep. Phoc. 4, 1:

concursus fit celeriter in praetorium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 76:

in forum a totā urbe,

Liv. 2, 56, 13; Nep. Dat. 3, 3:

ingens,

Verg. A. 9, 454: undique concursus, * Hor. S. 1, 9, 78:

bonorum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 1:

facere,

id. Deiot. 10, 28; Liv. 27, 7, 1.—

B.

In partic., absol., an uproar, tumult:

quem concursum in oppido factum putatis? quem clamorem?

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 52; cf. id. Sull. 5, 15:

quive coetu, concursu, turbā, seditione incendium fecerit,

Paul. Sent. 5, 26, 3; Dig. 48, 6, 5 pr.—

II.

A running or dashing together, a pressing, striking one upon another, an encountering, meeting; a concourse, etc.

A.

Of corporeal objects.

1.

In gen.:

concursus, motus, etc. (corporum quorundam) efficiunt ignes,

Lucr. 1, 686; cf.:

concursu suo nubes excussere semina ignis,

id. 6, 161; cf. also Ov. M. 11, 436:

caeli,

id. ib. 15, 811:

fortuito (atomorum),

Cic. N. D. 1, 24, 66; Quint. 7, 2, 2:

navium,

Caes. B. C. 2, 6; Liv. 29, 27, 6; Suet. Ner. 34:

lunae et solis,

conjunction, Cels. 1, 4: oris, a shutting (v. concurro, II. A. 1.), Quint. 11, 3, 56 Spald.:

asper verborum,

a harsh combination, Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171:

extremorum verborum cum insequentibus,

id. Or. 44, 150:

vocalium,

Quint. 9, 4, 33:

quinque amnium in unum confluens,

Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 75.—

2.

Esp., milit. t. t., an onset, attack, charge:

utriusque exercitus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92; Nep. Cim. 2, 3; id. Iphic. 1, 4:

acerrimo concursu pugnare,

id. Eum. 4, 1; id. Hann. 11, 4; Liv. 32, 30, 11; 42, 59, 4; Ov. M. 6, 695 et saep.:

proelii,

Nep. Thras. 1, 4.—

b.

Transf.

(α).

Concursus omnium philosophorum sustinere, assaults, Cic. Ac. 2, 22, 70.—

(β).

Jurid. t. t., an equal claim, joint heirship, Dig. 32, 80; 39, 2, 15; 7, 2, 1 fin. —

B.

Of abstr. objects, a meeting together, union, combination:

honestissimorum studiorum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 111:

calamitatum,

id. Fam. 5, 13, 2 (corresp. with vis tempestatum):

ex rationis et firmamenti conflictione et quasi concursu quaestio exoritur,

id. Part. Or. 30, 104.