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cŏmĭto , āre, 1, v. a. (poet. collat. form of comitor),
I.to accompany, attend, follow: “quod si Romanae comitarent castra puellae,Prop. 2, 7, 15; Ov. P. 2, 3, 43; id. M. 14, 259; 13, 55; 8, 692: “funera,id. P. 1, 9, 47 (Att. ap. Non. p. 85, 139, is, on account of the corruption of the text, dub.).—
b. Pass.: “comitor, āri,Plin. 9, 35, 55, § 110; Just. 30, 2, 4; Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 47; Lucr. 1, 98.—Esp. freq. in part. perf.: cŏmĭtātus , a, um, accompanied, attended: “(mulier) alienis viris comitata,Cic. Cael. 14, 34; so with an abl. added, Ov. M. 2, 441; 2, 845; 3, 215; 9, 687; 10, 9; id. Am. 1, 6, 33; Tib. 3, 2, 13; Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 65; Tac. Agr. 40; id. A. 14, 8: “trecentis feminarum comitata,Curt. 6, 5, 26; Sen. Hippol. 1; Stat. Achill. 2, 309. —As adj.: “quod ex urbe parum comitatus exierit,Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 4; so, “bene,id. Phil. 12, 10, 25; Quint. 12, 8, 3; and hence, also, in comp.: “puero ut uno esset comitatior,Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113; so Plin. 10, 37, 52, § 109; App. Mag. 1, p. 288, 29.
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    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 14.34
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 2.2.4
    • Cicero, Philippics, 12.10.25
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.259
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.441
    • Tacitus, Annales, 14.8
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.98
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    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.7
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.9
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.3
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