(verb) : ob-tingo (opt-), tĭgi, 3, and n. tango. *
* Act., to touch, strike: mustulentus aestus nares obtigit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 415, 16. (The same fragm., ib. 64, 2, has attigit.)
* Neutr., to fall to one's lot (syn.: accidit, evenit, contingit): naufragio res contigit. Nempe ergo haud Fortuna obtigit, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36: nullus est, quoi non invideant rem secundam obtingere,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 14: dies mihi adversus,id. Men. 5, 5, 1: mihi propter te hoc optigit,id. Capt. 3, 5, 88: quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat,Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21: mihi obtinget sors,Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 21; cf.: cum tibi aquaria provincia sorte obtigisset,Cic. Vatin. 5, 12: cum optatissimum nuntium accepissem, te mihi quaestorem obtigisse,id. Fam. 2, 19, 1; id. Div. 2, 17, 38: quam mihi obtigisse dicis σπἀρταν, numquam deseram, id. Att. 1, 20: omnia, quae hominibus forte obtigerunt,Quint. 3, 7, 13: quae (vox, latus, etc.) si modica obtigerunt, possunt ratione ampliari, id. praef. § 27.—With ut: cum ei (L. Paulo), bellum ut cum rege Perse gereret, obtigisset,it had fallen to his lot,Cic. Div. 1, 46, 103.
* Of events, to happen, befall, occur (in this sense accidere, contingere, evenire, etc., are more common): eloquere, ut haec res obtigit de filiā, has happened, taken place, turned out: id quom optigerat,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 20; id. Rud. 4, 6, 7: istuc tibi ex sententiā tuā obtigisse, laetor,Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 5: hoc confiteor jure Mi obtigisse,id. And. 3, 5, 2: praeter spem,id. Phorm. 2, 1, 9: si quid obtigerit, aequo animo paratoque moriar,if any thing should happen to me,Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3—In plur.: exoptata obtingent,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 136.

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