Compitum, cómpiti, pen. cor. Virg.A way where many waies doe meete, or where two streetes doe crosse.Frequentia compita. Horat. Wayes full of people.Pertusa compita. Persius. Ramosa compita. Persius. Places dinided into many wayes as it were braunches.Secta compita in ternas vias.Ouid.In compitis auctionari.Cic.In the crosse sircetes.Verbenis compita velare. Propert. To strame the streetes.Circum compita currere. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
compĭtum (compĕtum, Varr. L. L. 6, 25 Müll.), i, n. (mostly in plur.; in sing., Cato, R. R. 5, 4; Varr. L. L. 6, 43 Müll., and in Non. p. 94, 27; Liv. 27, 4, 12; Fest. p. 174, 7 Müll.; Dig. 8, 10, 12, 3; Tert. Test. Anim. 1 fin.—Access. form compĭtus, i, m., Varr. and Caecil. ap. Non. p. 196, 9 sq.) [competo], a place where several ways meet, a cross - way, cross - road, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7; Liv. 34, 2, 12; Verg. G. 2, 382; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 23; 4 (5), 3, 57; Ov. F. 1, 142; 2, 615; 5, 140; Hor. S. 2, 3, 26; 2, 6, 50; id. Ep. 1, 1, 49: compita Larum (Romae) CCLXV., Plin. 3, 5, 9, 66.—B.Trop. (with allusion to the fable of the Choice of Hercules), Pers. 5, 35. —II.Meton.: stomachi, Tert. Res Carn. 60.—Of an altar raised at cross-roads, Grat. Cyn. 483; Inscr. Grut. 107, 1 al.