Frequento, frequentas, frequentâre. Salust.To go often to: to haunt: to resort to: to go in great nÛber or many cogither.Aliqueni frequentare.Tacit.To visite one often.Domum alicuius.Cic.Frequentari domus dicitur quæ multis aditur. vel cum multis. Cicero. To be much haunted or gone vnto of many persons.Ludos frequentare.Cic.To go much to.Sacra.Ouid.To resorte in great number to diuine seruice.Solitudinem alicuius loci frequentare.Cic.To make a place populous and inhabited, which is solitarie.Templa frequentari decet.Ouid.It is meete people shoulde resorte much to the churches.Vibes sine cœru hominum nec ædificari, nec frequÊtati potuissent. Ci. Nor be builded, nor wel peopled & inhabited. Frequentare populum. Ci. To assemble the people in great number.Distinguenda & frequentanda est omnis oratio luminibus veborum. Cicer.The whole oration must be inriched and often beset and garnished with sundrie figures and ornaments of stile. Frequentare locum aliquem. Sueton. To make populous, and much haunted.Frequentanda vitis. Col. Frequentare, pro Geminare. Gell. To terme or call by sundrie names: or to repeate againe. Frequentare. Sen. To prasse or excoll often: Oftentimes to make honourable mention of.Triumphum frequentare.Liu.To make a triumph more honourable with a great multitude and haunt of people.Frequentare commercium epistolarum. Sen. To write often letters one to the other.Frequentatio ônis, f. g. Verbale, Cicero. An haunting or assembling: a thicke setting of many togither.Frequentatione argumentorum.Cic.In vsing many arguments thicke set togither.Densa & continens frequentatio verborum.Cic.A thicke & continuall heaping togither of words without ful panse.
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frĕquento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [frequens]. I. (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. —II. (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.). A. 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.,
, 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.—B. 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.—2.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.A.Frequent, common, much used: pavimenta, Plin. 36, 25, 61, 185: gemma reginis, id. 37, 10, 54, 145.— B.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.