Congredior, congrèderis, pen. cor congressus sum, cóngredi. pen. cor. Varr. To go with an other: to fight or dispute with: to go in hande to talke with one.Congredere actutum. Ter. Go and talke with him by & by.Congredi corm.Cic.To come before one and speake with him.In aliquo loco congredi.Cic.To meete in a place.Congredi aliquem.Plaut.To enter communication with one: to goe about to talke with.Congredi alicui quotidiana consuetudine. Cæs. To haue accesse to one dayly: to be euery day with him.Congredere mecum criminibus ipsis.Cic.Ioyne with me if thou dare in the accusations. Congredi.Virg.To fight with: to cope with.A cie congredi. Tac. To ioyne in battayle.Congredi cum hoste.Plaut.To cope with his enimie.Congredi cum rhetore.Cic.To cope or dispute with.Luctati & congredi cum aliquo.Cic.Congredi contra aliquem.Cic.To dispute against.
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con-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3, v. dep. [gradior], to go, come, or meet with one, esp. with the access. idea of intention, in a friendly or hostile sense (class. in prose and poetry); constr. with cum (contra, etc.), the acc., dat., or absol. I. In a friendly sense, to visit, accost, address, meet with.(a). With cum: insinuatus in familiaritatem adulescentis et cum eo saepe congressus, Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2: luna tum congrediens cum sole, tum digrediens, id. N. D. 2, 40, 103: perquirere ubi sit congressus cum servis Caelius, id. Cael. 22, 53: qui cum Caesare in itinere congressi ... orabant, Caes. B. G. 4, 11.—(b). With acc.: hunc, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 96; id. Ep. 4. 1, 19.—(g).Absol., Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16; id. Curc. 2, 1, 19 al.; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 12; Cic. Pis. 25, 59; id. Att. 8, 15, 3; Sall. J. 109, 2; Nep. Dat. 11, 2: in eo loco ut congrederentur convenit, Liv. 32, 39, 16; 38, 25, 6; 35, 15, 2: in Macedoniā congrediemur, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 6, 1: congressa primordia rerum, Lucr. 1, 761; 5, 192; 5, 427.—II. In a hostile sense, to fight, contend, engage. etc. (most freq. in the historians). (a). With cum: cum hostibus, Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 6: saepenumero cum his, Caes. B. G. 1, 39; 1, 40; 7, 65; Nep. Eum. 11, 5; id. Hann. 1, 2; Liv. 21, 16, 3.— (b). With contra: contra ipsum Caesarem est congressus armatus, Cic. Lig. 3, 9.— (g). With adversus, Aur. Vict. Epit. 40.— (d). With inter se, Aur. Vict. Caes. 42.—(e) With dat. (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): infelix puer atque impar congressus Achilli, Verg. A. 1, 475; Ov. M. 12, 76; Sen. Agam. 747: quippe armato congredi nudum dementia videbatur, Curt. 9, 7, 21; Aur. Vict. Caes. 39.— (z) Absol.: locus ad insidias ille, ubi congressi sunt, utri fuerit aptior, Cic. Mil. 20, 53: Aedui quoniam armis congressi ac superati essent, Caes. B. G. 1, 36; so id. ib.fin.; Nep. Dat. 8, 1; id. Ages. 3 fin.; Liv. 7, 22, 4; 8, 24, 9; Tac. A. 2, 11; 12, 54; Quint. 8, 3, 63; Verg. A. 12, 465; Curt. 9, 5, 14: totis viribus, id. 6, 1, 10: in congrediendis hostibus, Gell. 1, 11, 2 (cf. id. 9: in congressibus proeliorum).—B.Transf., of contention in words, specif. of judic. strife (almost confined to Cic. and Quint.): tecum luctari et congredi, Cic. Sull. 16, 47; so id. Mur. 32, 67: cum Academico et eodem rhetore, id. N. D. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 38, 9, 1 pr.; Cod. 7, 56, 3.—(b). With abstract subjects: quasi ad repugnandum congressa defensio, Cic. Top. 25, 93; cf. Quint. 3, 6, 13: oratio aequo congressa campo, id. 12, 9, 2.