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* V. dep. a. [comes], to join one's self to any one as an attendant, to accompany, attend, follow (class.; esp. freq. after the Aug. per.); constr. with acc. or absol., with abstr. subjects by Cic. three times (qs. comitem esse) with dat. (v. B. β).
* In gen.
* With acc.: propinqui Indutiomari comitati eos ex civitate excesserunt,Caes. B. G. 6, 8: matrem,Lucr. 2, 640: patrem,Suet. Calig. 10; Curt. 3, 8, 12: nautas fugā,Verg. A. 4, 543: Metellum in exsilium,Suet. Gram. 3: erilem filium in scholas,id. ib. 23: hostiam,Verg. G. 1, 346: iter alicujus,id. A. 6, 112: gressum erilem,id. ib. 8, 462: currum Augusti triumpho,Suet. Tib. 6; id. Dom. 2 fin.: rem militarem,Tac. A. 11, 22.
* In partic., to attend one to the grave: (Eumenem) comitante toto exercitu humaverunt,Nep. Eum. 13, 4; id. Att. 22, 4: juvenem exanimum vano honore,Verg. A. 11, 52; cf.: supremum comitentur honorem,id. ib. 11, 61.
* Transf. to inanimate objects (cf. comes, I. B.).
* With acc.: comitatur fama unionis ejus parem, etc.,Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 121: quando comitetur semper artem decor,Quint. 9, 4, 7; cf. also Curt. 8, 5, 16; Claud. C. Mal. Theod. 243; Dig. 45, 1, 126, § 1.
* With dat.: (Tarquinio Superbo) aliquamdiu prospera fortuna comitata est,Cic. Rep. 2, 24, 44: tardis enim mentibus virtus non facile comitatur,id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68: cetera, quae comitantur huic vitae,id. ib. 5, 35, 100.
* Absol.: an est aliquid per se ipsum flagitiosum, etiam si nulla comitetur infamia?Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 60: Teucrum comitantibus armis Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus!Verg. A. 4, 48; Ov. M. 14, 235; id. F. 3, 865: comitante opinione,Tac. Agr. 9.