Commeo, commeas, commeâre, Ex com, & meo, meas, compositum. Col. To goe hither and thither: to goe with.Quacunque commeauerat. Plin. By what soeuer way he passeth.Commeare dicuntur aues, anniuersario aduentu discessuque notæ. Plin. Inde Aues commeantes. Comming and going at certaine times of the yeare.Aliquò commeare. Tac. To goe any whither.Vt tuto ab repentino hostium incursu etiam singuli commeare possent. Cæs. That euery one might come and goe safely from sodaine inuasion.Ab ortu ad occasum commeat sol.Cic.Goeth and commeth from East to West.Siquando vulgus in illa via non commeabat. Vlp. Vndique cum mercibus & oneribus in eum locum commeant omnes.Cic.Come out of all partes.Publicè vtile est, sine metu & periculo per itinera commeari. Vlp. That men may come and goe.Commeare viam scrupulosam.Plaut.Commeare vltrò citróque.Liu.To goe hither and thither.Vicissim retrò commeant omnia.Cic.All thinges returne backe.Crebrò enim illius literæ ab alijs ad nos commeant.Cicer.Come to vs often times.Cuius in hortos, domum, iure suo libidines omnium commearent.Cic.Might enter.Posse eodem Flacco internuntio sermones commeare. Tac. That their talke or wordes might be declared by Flacens going betwene
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com-mĕo (conm-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., to go and come, pass to and fro: remeare redire, ut commeare ultro citroque ire, unde commeatus (leave of absence; v. commeatus, II. B.) dari dicitur, id est tempus, quo ire et redire commode quis possit, Fest. p. 276, 5, and p. 277, 25.—Hence freq. with ultro and citro (in good prose; freq. in Cic. and the histt.; not in Quint.). I. In gen. A. Usu. of living beings: pisciculi ultro ac citro commeant, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 16; Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84; Liv. 25, 30, 5; Plin. 2, 38, 38, 104; Suet. Calig. 19: cum terra in aquam se vertit et cum ex aquā oritur aër, ex aëre aether, cumque eadem vicissim retro commeant, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 31; 2, 19, 49: ut tuto ab repentino hostium incursu etiam singuli commeare possent, Caes. B. G. 7, 36 fin.: inter Veios Romamque, Liv. 5, 47, 11; cf.: commeantibus invicem nuntiis, Tac. A. 13, 38: quā viā omnes commeabant, Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Plin. 10, 23, 32, 63; Plin. Ep. 2, 7, 6. —B.Transf., of inanim. and abstr. objects: alterum (genus siderum) spatiis inmutabilibus ab ortu ad occasum commeans. Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: (fossam) latitudinis, quā contrariae quinqueremes commearent, pass to and fro, Suet. Ner. 31; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18, 46; Tac. A. 2, 28; 4, 41: quadrigae inter se occurrentes, sine periculo commeare dicuntur, Curt. 5, 1, 25: spiritum a summo ore in pulmonem, atque inde sursum in os commeare, Gell. 17, 11, 3.—Impers. commeatur, we, they, etc., go, Dig. 43, 8, 2, 21 al.—C. Rarely with cognate acc. vias, Dig. 48, 10, 27, 2 (for Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82, v. 1. commeto).—II. With particular reference to the terminus ad quem, to go, come, travel somewhere repeatedly or frequently; to visit a place often, to frequent: insula Delos, quo omnes undique cum mercibus commeabant, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 1; cf. Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3; Gell. 6, 10: in urbem, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 100; Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 14; Tac. A. 1, 46.—B.Transf. to inanim. or abstr. things: nam illaec catapultae ad me crebro commeant, Plaut. Curc. 3, 28: cujus in hortos, domum, Baias jure suo libidines omnium commearent, Cic. Cael. 16, 38: crebro illius litterae ab aliis ad nos commeant, id. Att. 8, 9, 3; cf. Tac. A. 4, 41.