con-grĕdĭor

con-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3, v. dep. [gradior], to go, come, or meet with one, esp. with the access. idea of intention, in a friendly or hostile sense (class. in prose and poetry); constr. with cum ( contra, etc.), the acc., dat., or absol.

In a friendly sense, to visit, accost, address, meet with.

With cum:

insinuatus in familiaritatem adulescentis et cum eo saepe congressus,

Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2:

luna tum congrediens cum sole, tum digrediens,

id. N. D. 2, 40, 103:

perquirere ubi sit congressus cum servis Caelius,

id. Cael. 22, 53:

qui cum Caesare in itinere congressi... orabant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 11.—

With acc.:

hunc,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 96; id. Ep. 4. 1, 19.—

Absol., Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16; id. Curc. 2, 1, 19 al.; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 12; Cic. Pis. 25, 59; id. Att. 8, 15, 3; Sall. J. 109, 2; Nep. Dat. 11, 2:

in eo loco ut congrederentur convenit,

Liv. 32, 39, 16; 38, 25, 6; 35, 15, 2: in Macedoniā congrediemur, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 6, 1:

congressa primordia rerum,

Lucr. 1, 761; 5, 192; 5, 427.—

In a hostile sense, to fight, contend, engage. etc. (most freq. in the historians).

With cum:

cum hostibus,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 6:

saepenumero cum his,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39; 1, 40; 7, 65; Nep. Eum. 11, 5; id. Hann. 1, 2; Liv. 21, 16, 3.—

With contra:

contra ipsum Caesarem est congressus armatus,

Cic. Lig. 3, 9.—

With adversus, Aur. Vict. Epit. 40.—

With inter se, Aur. Vict. Caes. 42.—

With dat. ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

infelix puer atque impar congressus Achilli,

Verg. A. 1, 475; Ov. M. 12, 76; Sen. Agam. 747:

quippe armato congredi nudum dementia videbatur,

Curt. 9, 7, 21; Aur. Vict. Caes. 39.—

Absol.:

locus ad insidias ille, ubi congressi sunt, utri fuerit aptior,

Cic. Mil. 20, 53:

Aedui quoniam armis congressi ac superati essent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 36; so id. ib. fin.; Nep. Dat. 8, 1; id. Ages. 3 fin.; Liv. 7, 22, 4; 8, 24, 9; Tac. A. 2, 11; 12, 54; Quint. 8, 3, 63; Verg. A. 12, 465; Curt. 9, 5, 14:

totis viribus,

id. 6, 1, 10:

in congrediendis hostibus,

Gell. 1, 11, 2 (cf. id. § 9: in congressibus proeliorum).—

Transf., of contention in words, specif. of judic. strife (almost confined to Cic. and Quint.):

tecum luctari et congredi,

Cic. Sull. 16, 47; so id. Mur. 32, 67:

cum Academico et eodem rhetore,

id. N. D. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 38, 9, 1 pr.; Cod. 7, 56, 3.—

With abstract subjects:

quasi ad repugnandum congressa defensio,

Cic. Top. 25, 93; cf. Quint. 3, 6, 13:

oratio aequo congressa campo,

id. 12, 9, 2.