# Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes

Author: Doederlein, Ludwig von, 1791-1863; Taylor, Samuel H. (Samuel Harvey), 1807-1871 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Arnold, Henry Hamilton [Translator]

Genre: Category: Language & Communication

Language: Latina

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33197

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## Summary

ACCIDERE; EVENIRE; CONTIGERE; OBVENIRE; OBTINGERE. +Accidere+ and +evenire+ denote both favorable and unfavorable occurrences; but the _accidentia_, unexpected ones, overtaking us by surprise; the _evenientia_ were expected, foreseen; +contingere+, +obvenire+, +obtingere+, are generally confined to _fortunate_ occurrences. The _accidentia_ are fortuitous, the _evenientia_ result from foregoing acts or circumstances; the _contingentia_ are the favors of Fortune; the _obtingentia_ and _obvenientia_ are the things that fall to one's _lot_. Cic. Fam. vi. 21. Timebam, ne _evenirent_, quæ _acciderunt_: the word _evenirent_ has a _subjective_ reference to his foresight, the word _acciderunt_ is...

## Chapters

- [xii. Comparata est opera mulieris ad domesticam diligentiam; viri autem](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/doderlein-s-hand-book-of-latin-synonymes-33197/chapters/2/index.md)
- [i. 33 and 38, in order to make the torture of that mode of dying felt](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/doderlein-s-hand-book-of-latin-synonymes-33197/chapters/1/index.md)