(v. a.P. a.adv.) : frĕquento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.frequens.
* (Acc. to frequens, I.) To visit or resort to frequently, to frequent; to do or make use of frequently, to repeat (class.): sermones eorum, qui frequentant domum meam,Cic. Fam. 5, 21, 1: juventus, quae domum Catilinae frequentabat,Sall. C. 14, 7: domum alicujus,Quint. 12, 11, 5: (Vespasianus) locum incunabulorum assidue frequentavit,Suet. Vesp. 2: scholam alicujus,id. Gram. 7: dum deus Eurotan immunitamque frequentat Sparten,Ov. M. 10, 169: plebes sic accensa, uti opifices agrestesque omnes relictis operibus frequentarent Marium,often visited, resorted to him,Sall. J. 73, 6: juvenis jam juventutis concursu, jam publicis studiis frequentabatur,Tac. A. 5, 10.—With dat.: istoc quidem nos pretio facile est frequentare tibi,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 10; cf.: ne coetu salutantium frequentaretur Agrippina,Tac. A. 13, 18; id. H. 2, 16: si aliquando alio domino solita est frequentari (domus),Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139: quae loca et nationes minus frequentata sunt,Sall. J. 17, 2: tu primas quasque partes in animo frequenta,frequently think over, repeat,Auct. Her. 3, 24, 40: haec frequentat Phalereus maxime,Cic. Or. 27, 94; 25, 85: turba ruunt et Hymen clamant, Hymenaee frequentant,Ov. H. 12, 143: memoriam alicujus,to call to mind often,Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 3, 2: exigis ut hoc epistolarum commercium frequentemus,exchange letters oftener,id. Ep. 38, 1: nec ideo conjugia et educationes liberum frequentabantur praevalida orbitate,became more frequent,Tac. A. 3, 25: prima trullis frequentetur inductio (calcis),be repeated,Pall. 1, 15: verbi translatio instituta est inopiae causa, frequentata delectationis,Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 155; cf.: quae (exempla levitatis Atheniensium) nata et frequentata apud illos, etc.,id. Rep. 1, 3.
* (Acc. to frequens, II.) To fill with a great number or multitude, to fill, crowd, people, stock a place; to assemble or bring together in numbers (class.).
* In gen.: urbes sine hominum coetu non potuissent nec aedificari nec frequentari,be peopled,Cic. Off. 2, 4, 15: Italiae solitudinem frequentari,id. Att. 1, 19, 4; cf. Suet. Aug. 46: templa frequentari nunc decet,to be crowded,Ov. F. 4, 871: mundum nova prole, to stock, Col. poët. 10, 213: piscinas,id. 8, 16, 2: castaneta,id. 4, 33, 3: vineam,id. 4, 15, 1: quos cum casu hic dies ad aerarium frequentasset, etc.,had assembled in great numbers,Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15: populum,id. Dom. 33, 89: acervatim multa frequentans,crowding together,id. Or. 25, 85; cf.: tum est quasi luminibus distinguenda et frequentanda omnis oratio sententiarum atque verborum,id. de Or. 3, 52, 201: digressis qui Pacarium frequentabant,Tac. H. 2, 16; v. frequentatio, II.
* In partic. (like celebro, but much less freq.), to celebrate or keep in great numbers, esp. a festival: publicum est, quod civitas universa aliqua de causa frequentat, ut ludi, dies festus, bellum, Cic. Inv. 1, 27, 40: nunc ad triumphum frequentandum deductos esse milites,Liv. 36, 39: sacra,Ov. M. 4, 37: ut mors Sulpicii publicis exsequiis frequentaretur,Tac. A. 3, 48.
* Poet. and post-Aug. also of a single person, to celebrate, observe, keep: Baccheaque sacra frequento,Ov. M. 3, 691: festos dies apud Baias Nero frequentabat,Tac. A. 14, 4 Draeg. ad loc.: dies sollennes,Suet. Aug. 53: quorundam exsequias usque ad rogum,id. Tib. 32: Cererem (Ennaeae nurus),Auct. Priap. 77.—Hence, frĕquen-tātus, a, um, P. a.
* Frequent, common, much used: pavimenta,Plin. 36, 25, 61, § 185: gemma reginis,id. 37, 10, 54, § 145.—*
* Full of, rich or abounding in: aliud genus est non tam sententiis frequentatum quam verbis volucre atque incitatum,Cic. Brut. 95, 325.—Hence, adv.: frĕquentāto, frequently, App. M. 9, p. 228, 29.

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