ENCOUNTER Copy link • ENCOUNTER 1. s. Vid. CONTEST, BATTLE, etc. 2. v. obviam ire (to go to meet, in a hostile sense, or from courtesy): occurrere, occursare (to hasten to meet, whether in a friendly or hostile manner = ἀπαντᾶν): resistere, obsistere (withstand a person or thing). To encounter the enemy, hostibus resistere; hosti se opponere. To encounter a danger, periculo obviam ire, se offerre, se opponere, se committere: to encounter death, morti se offerre, or se objicere: to encounter death undismayed, acriter se morti offerre; promte necem subire (a violent death, Tac., Ann., 16, 10, 1); with the utmost fortitude, irrevocabili constantia ad mortem decurrere (Plin., Ep., 3, 7, in.): to encounter certain death, haud dubiam in mortem vadere (Verg.); se in medios hostes ad perspicuam mortem injicere iby the particular way of flinging one’s self into the midst of the enemy); ad non dubiam mortem concurrere (of whole armies, Cic.); in eum locum proficisci, unde redituros (etc.) se non arbitrantur (Cic.; of a hopeless attack). Meet by accident, se obviam ferre or offerre (of the person whom we meet): offendere aliquem or aliquid; incurrere in aliquem or aliquid; occurrere alicui: incidere in aliquem.