Occupätus, Adiect, Cicer.Let in businesse: occupied: taken vp: possessed.Nisi quid magis es occupatus, operam mihi da. Pla. Helpe me a little: if you haue no more earnest businesse.Occupatus & Otiosus, contraria.Cic.OccupatÛ & impeditÛ nunquam hunc tenuerunt amores.Cic.He was neuer troubled or intangled in wanton loue.Occupatus auditioni. Plin. Buslly occupied in harkening or giuing eare to. Vehementer occupatus homo. Cic.Eram occupatior de Q. filio, Cic.I was somewhat troubledabout my sounes matter.Occupatus in amore Terent.Intangled in loue.Occupatus in bonis.Cic. Occupatus in studio. Cato. Occupatus in re samiliati.Cic. Occupatus in se conseruando, Cicer.Occupatus tot annos in dijs mortalibus placandis. Cicero. Occupati animi benesicijs alicuius. Liuius. Mens heartes wonne and gotten by pleasures done them.Animum occupatum in allqua re habere.Cic.To haue his minde occupsed about a thing.Opera occupata.Cic. Tempora. Cic.Occupatissimus.Cic. Non dubito quin occupatissimus fuÊris, qui ad me nihil literarum. I doubt not but that you had very great bunesse and let, that you sende me no letters at all.
, Ov. F. 3, 509.—B.Transf.1.To occupy, i. e. to take up, fill with any thing: atrā nube polum, Hor. C. 3, 29, 44: urbem (sc. aedificiis), Liv. 5, 55: caementis Tyrrhenum mare, Hor. C. 3, 24, 3.—2.To fall upon, attack one with any thing (syn. invado): Latagum saxo ... Occupat os faciemque adversam, Verg. A. 10, 699: aliquem gladio, id. ib. 9, 770: aliquem morsu, Ov. M. 3, 48: canes ense, Prop. 4, 4, 82 (5, 4, 84): ne occupet te pluvia, Vulg. 3 Reg. 18. 44: caligo, id. Job, 3, 5.—Poet., in a friendly sense, to surprise: Volteium Philippus Vilia vendentem Occupat, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 64.—3.To get the start of, to be beforehand with, to anticipate, to do a thing first, to outstrip: occupat egressas quamlibet ante rates, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 6: volo, tu prior ut occupes adire,
that you should present yourself the first
, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 15: praeloqui, id. Rud. 1, 4, 18: bellum facere,
to begin the war first
, Liv. 1, 14: rapere oscula, Hor. C. 2, 12, 28.—II.Trop.A.To seize, take possession of, fill, invade, engross: tantus timor omnem exercitum occupavit, Caes. B. G. 1, 39: tremor occupat artus, Ov. M. 3, 40: sopor occupat artus, Verg. G. 4, 190: animos magnitudine rei, Cic. Font. 5, 20: pallor ora, Verg. A. 4, 499.—B.To take up, occupy, employ: haec causa primos menses occupabit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3: cum in mentem venit tres et sexaginta annos aeque multa volumina occupasse mihi, Liv. 31, 1, 3: in funambulo Animum, Ter. Hec. prol. 1, 4: contio, quae homines occupatos occupat, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 7: tanta superstitio mentis Siculorum occupavit, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51, 113: pecuniam, to put out or lay out money: pecuniam adulescentulo grandi fenore occupavisti,