highbuilt

ex-strŭo ( extr-), xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to pile or heap up (class.; syn.: struo, aedifico, condo, fundo).

Lit.

In gen.:

magnum acervum (librorum),

Cic. Att. 2, 2, 2; cf.:

stramenta in acervum exstrui debent,

to be heaped up, Col. 6, 3, 1:

mensae conquisitissimis epulis exstruebantur,

heaped, bountifully furnished, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62:

mensas,

Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 25:

caret exstructis mensis,

Cic. de Sen. 13, 44; id. Pis. 27, 67; Ov. M. 11, 120; cf.

canistros,

to heap full, Hor. S. 2, 6, 105:

focum lignis,

id. Epod. 2, 43:

exstructis in altum divitiis,

id. C. 2, 3, 19:

divitias,

Petr. 84.—

In partic. (acc. to struo, I. B. 1.), to build up, raise, rear, erect, construct:

exstrui vetat (Plato) sepulcrum altius quam quod, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68:

aedificium in alieno,

id. Mil. 27, 74:

monumentum, molem opere magnifico,

id. Phil. 14, 12, 33:

theatrum,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

tumulos,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17, 4:

aggerem in altitudinem pedum octoginta,

id. B. C. 2, 1 fin.; id. B. G. 2, 30, 3; 7, 24, 1:

turres,

id. B. C. 3, 54, 1; 3, 112, 1; Sall. J. 23, 1:

rogum,

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 76; Ov. F. 3, 546:

quas (divitias) profundant in exstruendo mari et montibus coaequandis,

to build up, fill with buildings, Sall. C. 20, 11:

aream sibi sumpsit, in qua civitatem exstrueret arbitratu suo,

Cic. Rep. 2, 11.—

Trop.

In gen.:

verba sint ad poëticum quendam numerum exstructa,

put together, constructed, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 44:

poëma,

Petr. 118:

crimen unum vocibus multis,

to exaggerate, magnify, Gell. 13, 24, 12.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B.):

exstrue animo altitudinem excellentiamque virtutum,

build up, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71; cf.:

non modo fundata sed etiam exstructa disciplina,

id. ib. 4, 1, 1.—Hence, * ex-structus ( extr-), a, um, P. a., highbuilt, lofty:

exstructissimae species aedificiorum,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 54, 20.