concursātor

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con-curso, āre, v. freq. n. and a.

To come violently together, to rush together, clash:

concursare, coire et dissultare vicissim (semina),

Lucr. 3, 396.—Far more freq. and class.,

To go to and fro, run about, rush hither and thither, travel about (cf. commeo).

Neutr.:

nunc hinc, nunc illinc,

Lucr. 2, 215:

Titurius trepidare, concursare, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

concursabant barbatuli juvenes,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

dies noctesque,

id. Rosc. Am. 29, 81; Liv. 4, 6, 9; 5, 8, 8:

circum tabernas,

Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17:

per viam,

Liv. 9, 24, 12: cum concursant ceteri praetores, to travel about (corresp. with tempus in itineribus consumere), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29; and impers. pass.:

in his administrandis rebus quam maxime concursari jubet,

Caes. B. G. 5, 50. —

In milit. lang., to skirmish: in proelio, [p. 406] Liv. 28, 2, 7; cf. concursatio, III. 2., and concursator.—

Act.: concursare aliquid, to rove or ramble somewhere, to visit a place, to frequent (only in Cic.; sometimes interchanged with circumcurso;

v. h. v.): cum jam hoc novo more omnes fere domos omnium concursent,

to go from house to house, Cic. Mur. 21, 44:

concursare et obire provinciam (praetores),

id. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 80; cf.

the preced.: concursare omnium mortalium non modo lectos, verum etiam grabatos,

id. Div. 2, 63, 129; cf.:

concursare lecticula mecum,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 5.