occurso
ἐν οἰκίᾳ τυφλῶν καὶ ὁ νυκτάλωψ ὀξυδερκής → even the day-blind is sharp-eyed in a blind house | among the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
occurso: āvi, ātum, 1,
I 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, occur to me, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 56.
