collision Copy link Outline 1. conflictio c. duorum corporum inter se, Quint.2. conflictus, ūs3. concursio4. concursus, ūs • collision: 1. conflictio c. duorum corporum inter se, Quint. 2. conflictus, ūs: a c. of clouds, nubium c., Cic.: a c. of the bodies (of men in battle), c. corporum, Cic. 3. concursio: to be cemented together by means of c. (of the atoms of Epicurus), concursionibus inter se cohaerescere, Cic.: Gell. 4. concursus, ūs: c.s of ships with one another, c. navium inter se, Liv.: Caes. (But concursus oftener means simply junction, concourse.) Phr.: the tempest occasioned c.s amongst the transports, onerarias (naves) tempestas afflictabat, Caes.: the clouds come into c. with one another, concurrunt nubes, Lucr.: to come into c. with anything, incurrere in aliquid, ad aliquid offendere: v. to dash against. Fig.: Greece brought into c. with a foreign land in a tedious war, Graecia Barbariae lento collisa duello, Hor.: they came into c. no strangers to each other's tactics, haud ignotas belli artes inter se conserebant, Liv. 21, 1.