I.v. intens. a. [peto], to strive after or seek for repeatedly or eagerly, to pursue; with acc. (rare but class.): “petissere antiqui pro petere dicebant. Sed, ut mihi videtur, cum significabant saepius petere,” Fest. p. 206 Müll.; cf.: petissere petere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 212 ib.: “pugnam caedesque petessit,” Lucr. 3, 648: “auras petessens,” id. 5, 810: “laudem,” Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62.
pĕtesso and pĕtisso , ĕre,