Occurso, occursas, occursâre, Frequentatiuum, Virgil. Often to meete, or runne against: to come often to minde.Me occursant multæ, haud meminissé omnes possum.Plaut.Many come into my minde.Occursant animo meo mea scripta. Plin. Occursare numinibus.Plin. iun.To preuent the wrath of the gods with sacrisices that they plague vs not.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
occurso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. n. [occurro], to run, go, or come to meet; to meet (not in Cic.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: alios occursantes interficere, Sall. J. 12, 5: occursare capro ... caveto,
beware of meeting
, Verg. E. 9, 24: fugientibus, Tac. A. 3, 20.— Of things: occursantes inter se radices, Plin. 16, 2, 2, 6.—B. In partic. 1.To rush against or upon, to attack, charge; to strive against, oppose: occursat ocius gladio, Caes. B. G. 5, 44: inter invidos, occursantes, factiosos,
opposing
, Sall. J. 85, 3: fortissimus quisque et promptissimus ad occursandum pugnandumque, Gell. 3, 7, 6. —2.To come to or towards: quid tu huc occursas, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 27.—II.Trop.A.To be beforehand with, to anticipate: fortunae, Plin. Pan. 25, 5.—B.To appear before, present one's self to: numinibus, Plin. Pan. 81, 1.—2. Esp., to appear to the mind; to suggest itself, enter the thoughts, occur to one; with or without animo; also with acc. of the person: occursant animo scripta, Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 7: occursant verba, id. ib. 2, 3, 2: me occursant multae, meminisse hau possum,