occurso, āvi, ātum, 1
* V. freq. n. [occurro], to run, go, or come to meet; to meet (not in Cic.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: alios occursantes interficere,Sall. J. 12, 5: occursare capro ... caveto,beware of meeting,Verg. E. 9, 24: fugientibus,Tac. A. 3, 20.— Of things: occursantes inter se radices,Plin. 16, 2, 2, § 6.
* Trop.
* To rush against or upon, to attack, charge; to strive against, oppose: occursat ocius gladio,Caes. B. G. 5, 44: inter invidos, occursantes, factiosos,opposing,Sall. J. 85, 3: fortissimus quisque et promptissimus ad occursandum pugnandumque,Gell. 3, 7, 6.
* To come to or towards: quid tu huc occursas,Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 27.
* To be beforehand with, to anticipate: fortunae,Plin. Pan. 25, 5.
* To appear before, present one's self to: numinibus,Plin. Pan. 81, 1.
* Esp., to appear to the mind; to suggest itself, enter the thoughts, occur to one; with or without animo; also with acc. of the person: occursant animo scripta,Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 7: occursant verba,id. ib. 2, 3, 2: me occursant multae, meminisse hau possum,occur to me,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 56.

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