concursus (noun M) : concurro.
* 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.
* 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.
* A running or dashing together, a pressing, striking one upon another, an encountering, meeting; a concourse, etc.
* Of corporeal objects.
* 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.
* 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.
* Transf.
* Concursus omnium philosophorum sustinere, assaults, Cic. Ac. 2, 22, 70.
* Jurid. t. t., an equal claim, joint heirship, Dig. 32, 80; 39, 2, 15; 7, 2, 1 fin.

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