to erect a building

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aedĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [aedesfacio], lit. to erect a building, to build; and in gen., to build, raise, erect, or establish any thing.

Lit.: aedificare cum sit proprie aedem facere, ponitur tamen katachrêstikôs in omni genere constructionis, Fest. p. 13 Müll.; hence in the first signif. for the most part

Absol.:

aedificare diu cogitare oportet,

Cato, R. R. 3, 1:

ecce aedificat,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 56:

ad quem (usum) accommodanda est aedificandi descriptio,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138; id. ib. 2, 23, 83:

tribus locis aedifico, reliqua reconcinno,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 6:

lautius, id Leg. 2, 1, 3: belle,

id. Att. 9, 13 al.:

accuratius ad frigora atque aestus vitandos,

Caes. B. G. 6, 22:

diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 100; so id. S. 2, 3, 308.—

With object:

domum,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 4; so Vulg. Exod. 1, 21:

casas,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 247.—

In gen., to build, construct, etc.:

navim,

Plaut. Mer. prol. 87 piscinas, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 5:

navem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18:

urbem,

id. ib. 2, 4, 53; so Vulg. Exod. 1, 11:

oppida,

ib. 2 Para. 26, 6:

turrim,

ib. Matt. 21, 3:

murum,

ib. 2 Para. 33, 14:

porticum,

Cic. Dom. 43:

hortos,

id. Att. 9, 13:

equum,

Verg. A. 2, 16:

mundum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 25:

tot adhuc compagibus altum aedificat caput,

i.e. makes it, by bands and hair ornaments, a high tower, Juv. 6, 501.—

Fig., to build up, establish:

rem publicam,

Cic. Fam. 9, 2.—And (eccl.) in a religious sense, to build up, instruct, edify.

Absol.:

caritas aedificat,

Vulg. 1 Cor. 8, 1:

non omnia aedificant,

ib. ib. 16, 23.—

With object:

semetipsum,

Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 4:

alterutrum,

ib. 1 Thess. 5, 11.

ex-tollo, ĕre ( pluperf. exsustulissent, Sen. Contr. 1, 6, 4), v. a., to lift out or up, to raise up, elevate (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.: (venti) fluctus extollere certant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 ed. Vahl.): me in abietem, Att. ap. Non. 467, 19 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 188):

onera in jumenta,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 3:

alte cruentum pugionem,

Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 28: lumbos surgite atque extollite, Plaut. Ep. grex 2: neve tu umquam in gremium extollas liberorum ex te genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155 (Trag. v. 347 ed. Vahl.).— Absol.:

quae sit scientia atque ars agricolarum quae circumcidat, amputet, erigat, extollat, adminiculetur,

Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39. —

In partic., to erect a building (anteand post-class.); without acc., to build, Dig. 8, 5, 5.—So trop.:

parentes fabri liberūm sunt, ei fundamentum supstruont liberorum, extollunt, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 41. —

Trop., to raise, elevate, exalt:

ubi illa antiqua libertas, quae extollere jam caput debebat?

Cic. Planc. 13, 33:

fortunam (opp. deprimere),

id. Pis. 18, 41 (v. deprimo):

inferiores (opp. summittere se),

id. Lael. 20, 72:

aliquem ad caelum,

to extol, id. Fam. 12, 25, 7:

aliquem supra ceteros,

Tac. A. 6, 8: summam famam sibi, Enn. ap. Isid. Differ. 218 (Trag. v. 28 ed. Vahl.):

adolescentium animos praematuris honoribus ad superbiam,

Tac. A. 4, 17:

ne paterna nobilitas nepoti animos extolleret,

Just. 1, 4, 4;

Sen. de Ira, 1, 7: meritum alicujus verbis,

Cic. Planc. 40, 95:

nostram causam laudando,

Auct. Her. 1, 5 fin.:

aliquid in majus,

Liv. 28, 31; Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 1:

an mavis virtuperarier falso quam vero extolli?

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 21:

Hannibalis fortunam,

to praise, Liv. 23, 43, 10:

hostem verbis,

id. 22, 25, 12:

orationem amplificationibus,

Quint. 12, 10, 62; cf.:

humilia (stilo),

id. 10, 4, 1:

animos,

Cic. Part. Or. 23, 81; Luc. 8, 345:

animus remissione sic urgetur, ut se nequeat extollere,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 54:

se supra modum,

Quint. 11, 1, 16:

vocem,

to begin to speak, Vulg. Luc. 11, 27.—

To adorn, deck, beautify:

(hortos) a Lucullo coeptos insigni magnificentia extollebat,

Tac. A. 11, 1:

Baiarum suarum piscinas,

id. ib. 13, 21.—

To put off, defer (only anteclass.):

res serias ex hoc die in alium diem,

Plaut. Poen. 2, 52:

hoc malum in diem,

id. Mil. 3, 2, 47: nuptias hodie, Caecil. ap. Non. 297, 28.

surgo and surrĭgo ( subr-): surrexi and subrexi, surrectum and subrectum, 3 ( perf. surregit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 296 Müll.;

orig. forms: surrigit,

Verg. A. 4, 183; Sen. Q. N. 6, 4: surriguntur, id. Ira, 1, 1 med.: surrigebant, Hier. Vit. Hil. fin.:

subrigens,

Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88; 10, 29, 44, § 86: subrigere, id. 18, 35, 89, § 365. —

Sync. forms: surrexti,

Mart. 5, 79, 1:

surrexe,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 73), v. a. and n. [contr. from surrigo, from sub-rego].

Act., to lift or raise up, to raise, erect, elevate (very rare;

after the Aug. per., the original uncontracted forms were chiefly used in this sense, to distinguish it from the class. signif., II.): plaudite, valete: lumbos surgite atque extollite,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 68:

caput,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 329:

omnes capitum hiatus ( = capita hiantia),

Stat. Th. 2, 27:

surgit caput Apenninus,

Avien. Perieg. 484:

tot surrigit aures,

Verg. A. 4, 183:

terrae motus defert montes, surrigit plana, valles extuberat,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 4, 2:

paulatim subrigens se,

Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88:

cristam,

id. 10, 29, 44, § 86:

cornua,

Col. 7, 3, 3; cf.

mid.: horrent et surriguntur capilli,

rise, stand erect, Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 4:

hastae surrectā cuspide in terrā fixae,

Liv. 8, 8:

mucrone surrecto,

id. 7, 10, 10:

calcar equo,

Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 12:

aures subrectae furentibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137:

turres subrectae,

Sen. Ep. 86, 4:

surrecta moles,

Sil. 2, 599.—

Neutr., to rise, arise, to get up, stand up (the predominant and class. signif. of the word; syn.: exsurgo, exorior).

Lit.

In gen.:

a mensā surgunt saturi, poti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 62:

a cenā,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 13:

e lecto,

Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 4:

e lectulo,

Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112:

de sellā,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147:

ex subselliis,

id. Fl. 10, 22:

solio,

Ov. M. 3, 273:

humo,

id. ib. 2, 771; id. F. 6, 735:

toro,

id. M. 9, 702:

toris,

id. ib. 12, 579:

ab umbris ad lumina vitae,

Verg. A. 7, 771.—

Esp., of an orator: cur, cum tot summi oratores sedeant, ego potissimum surrexerim,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 1:

ad dicendum,

id. de Or. 2, 78, 316; Quint. 2, 6, 2:

ad respondendum,

Cic. Clu. 18, 51:

surgit ad hos Ajax,

Ov. M. 13, 2.— Absol.:

nolo eum, qui dicturus est, sollicitum surgere,

Quint. 12, 5, 4:

secundā vigiliā surgit,

breaks up the camp, marches, Curt. 5, 4, 23.—

Of things, to rise, mount up, ascend (mostly poet.;

syn. ascendo): surgat pius ignis ab arā,

Ov. P. 4, 9, 53:

jussit subsidere valles... lapidosos surgere montes,

id. M. 1, 44:

mons Rhipaeus,

Mel. 1, 19 fin.:

Atlas,

id. 3, 10. —

Of the sea: fretum,

Ov. M. 14, 711:

mare,

id. ib. 15, 508:

aequora,

Verg. A. 3, 196:

undae,

id. ib. 6, 354:

amoeni fontes,

Quint. 8, 3, 8:

cacumina oleae in altum,

id. 8, 3, 10:

fistula disparibus avenis,

Ov. M. 8, 192; cf. poet.:

surgens in cornua cervus ( = ferens cornua ardua),

i. e. towering, Verg. A. 10, 725:

umeri surgunt,

id. ib. 10, 476:

lux Praecipitatur aquis et aquis nox surgit ab isdem,

Ov. M. 4, 92; id. F. 4, 629:

sol,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 73:

dies,

Verg. G. 3, 400:

luna,

id. A. 6, 453:

tenebrae,

Sen. Thyest. 822:

austri,

Verg. A. 3, 481:

ventus,

id. ib. 5, 777:

quae (aedes) proxima surgit ovili,

stands, Juv. 6, 529.—

In partic.

To rise, arise, get up from bed, from sleep:

ille multo ante lucem surrexit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

ante lucem,

id. Att. 16, 13, a:

cum die,

Ov. M. 13, 677:

mane ad invisas rotas,

id. Am. 1, 13, 38:

ad lites novas,

id. ib. 1, 13, 22:

ad praescripta munia,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 81.—

To rise in growth, to spring up, grow up; to rise in building, be built, etc. ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose):

venerata Ceres culmo surgeret alto,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 124:

nec potuere surgere messes,

Verg. G. 1, 161:

harundo,

Ov. M. 13, 891:

sementis,

Col. 2, 8, 5:

surgens arx,

Verg. A. 1, 366; cf.:

nunc aggere multo Surgit opus,

Luc. 2, 679:

area cinere mixtisque pumicibus oppleta surrexerat,

Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 14:

Ascanius surgens,

growing, Verg. A. 4, 274.—

To ascend, go up:

ad auras Aetherias,

i. e. into life, Verg. A. 6, 762.—

Trop., to rise, arise, occur, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

multum supra prosam orationem surgit,

Quint. 10, 1, 81:

quae nunc animo sententia surgit?

Verg. A. 1, 582:

pugna aspera surgit,

id. ib. 9, 667:

discordia,

id. ib. 12, 313:

rumor,

Tac. H. 2, 42:

honor,

Ov. F. 5, 228:

ingenium suis velocius annis,

id. A. A. 1, 186:

non ulla laborum nova mi facies surgit,

Verg. A. 6, 104.—Of the swell of a verse: sex mihi surgat opus numeris;

in quinque residat (cf.: "in the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column," Coleridge),

Ov. Am. 1, 1, 27. —

With in or ad and acc., to rise to or against, to attempt, assume, attack, etc. ( poet. and late Lat.):

in Teucros Aetolis surgit ab Arpis Tydides,

Verg. A. 10, 28: surrecturus in vires, si ipse quoque lacesseretur, Amm. 31, 3, 4:

Procopius in res surrexerat novas,

id. 26, 5, 8:

ad motum certaminum civilium avide surrecturus,

id. 21, 15, 1:

ad insontium pericula surrexerunt,

id. 21, 13, 14; App. M. 7, p. 198, 3.

surgo and surrĭgo ( subr-): surrexi and subrexi, surrectum and subrectum, 3 ( perf. surregit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 296 Müll.;

orig. forms: surrigit,

Verg. A. 4, 183; Sen. Q. N. 6, 4: surriguntur, id. Ira, 1, 1 med.: surrigebant, Hier. Vit. Hil. fin.:

subrigens,

Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88; 10, 29, 44, § 86: subrigere, id. 18, 35, 89, § 365. —

Sync. forms: surrexti,

Mart. 5, 79, 1:

surrexe,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 73), v. a. and n. [contr. from surrigo, from sub-rego].

Act., to lift or raise up, to raise, erect, elevate (very rare;

after the Aug. per., the original uncontracted forms were chiefly used in this sense, to distinguish it from the class. signif., II.): plaudite, valete: lumbos surgite atque extollite,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 68:

caput,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 329:

omnes capitum hiatus ( = capita hiantia),

Stat. Th. 2, 27:

surgit caput Apenninus,

Avien. Perieg. 484:

tot surrigit aures,

Verg. A. 4, 183:

terrae motus defert montes, surrigit plana, valles extuberat,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 4, 2:

paulatim subrigens se,

Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88:

cristam,

id. 10, 29, 44, § 86:

cornua,

Col. 7, 3, 3; cf.

mid.: horrent et surriguntur capilli,

rise, stand erect, Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 4:

hastae surrectā cuspide in terrā fixae,

Liv. 8, 8:

mucrone surrecto,

id. 7, 10, 10:

calcar equo,

Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 12:

aures subrectae furentibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137:

turres subrectae,

Sen. Ep. 86, 4:

surrecta moles,

Sil. 2, 599.—

Neutr., to rise, arise, to get up, stand up (the predominant and class. signif. of the word; syn.: exsurgo, exorior).

Lit.

In gen.:

a mensā surgunt saturi, poti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 62:

a cenā,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 13:

e lecto,

Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 4:

e lectulo,

Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112:

de sellā,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147:

ex subselliis,

id. Fl. 10, 22:

solio,

Ov. M. 3, 273:

humo,

id. ib. 2, 771; id. F. 6, 735:

toro,

id. M. 9, 702:

toris,

id. ib. 12, 579:

ab umbris ad lumina vitae,

Verg. A. 7, 771.—

Esp., of an orator: cur, cum tot summi oratores sedeant, ego potissimum surrexerim,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 1:

ad dicendum,

id. de Or. 2, 78, 316; Quint. 2, 6, 2:

ad respondendum,

Cic. Clu. 18, 51:

surgit ad hos Ajax,

Ov. M. 13, 2.— Absol.:

nolo eum, qui dicturus est, sollicitum surgere,

Quint. 12, 5, 4:

secundā vigiliā surgit,

breaks up the camp, marches, Curt. 5, 4, 23.—

Of things, to rise, mount up, ascend (mostly poet.;

syn. ascendo): surgat pius ignis ab arā,

Ov. P. 4, 9, 53:

jussit subsidere valles... lapidosos surgere montes,

id. M. 1, 44:

mons Rhipaeus,

Mel. 1, 19 fin.:

Atlas,

id. 3, 10. —

Of the sea: fretum,

Ov. M. 14, 711:

mare,

id. ib. 15, 508:

aequora,

Verg. A. 3, 196:

undae,

id. ib. 6, 354:

amoeni fontes,

Quint. 8, 3, 8:

cacumina oleae in altum,

id. 8, 3, 10:

fistula disparibus avenis,

Ov. M. 8, 192; cf. poet.:

surgens in cornua cervus ( = ferens cornua ardua),

i. e. towering, Verg. A. 10, 725:

umeri surgunt,

id. ib. 10, 476:

lux Praecipitatur aquis et aquis nox surgit ab isdem,

Ov. M. 4, 92; id. F. 4, 629:

sol,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 73:

dies,

Verg. G. 3, 400:

luna,

id. A. 6, 453:

tenebrae,

Sen. Thyest. 822:

austri,

Verg. A. 3, 481:

ventus,

id. ib. 5, 777:

quae (aedes) proxima surgit ovili,

stands, Juv. 6, 529.—

In partic.

To rise, arise, get up from bed, from sleep:

ille multo ante lucem surrexit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14:

ante lucem,

id. Att. 16, 13, a:

cum die,

Ov. M. 13, 677:

mane ad invisas rotas,

id. Am. 1, 13, 38:

ad lites novas,

id. ib. 1, 13, 22:

ad praescripta munia,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 81.—

To rise in growth, to spring up, grow up; to rise in building, be built, etc. ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose):

venerata Ceres culmo surgeret alto,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 124:

nec potuere surgere messes,

Verg. G. 1, 161:

harundo,

Ov. M. 13, 891:

sementis,

Col. 2, 8, 5:

surgens arx,

Verg. A. 1, 366; cf.:

nunc aggere multo Surgit opus,

Luc. 2, 679:

area cinere mixtisque pumicibus oppleta surrexerat,

Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 14:

Ascanius surgens,

growing, Verg. A. 4, 274.—

To ascend, go up:

ad auras Aetherias,

i. e. into life, Verg. A. 6, 762.—

Trop., to rise, arise, occur, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

multum supra prosam orationem surgit,

Quint. 10, 1, 81:

quae nunc animo sententia surgit?

Verg. A. 1, 582:

pugna aspera surgit,

id. ib. 9, 667:

discordia,

id. ib. 12, 313:

rumor,

Tac. H. 2, 42:

honor,

Ov. F. 5, 228:

ingenium suis velocius annis,

id. A. A. 1, 186:

non ulla laborum nova mi facies surgit,

Verg. A. 6, 104.—Of the swell of a verse: sex mihi surgat opus numeris;

in quinque residat (cf.: "in the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column," Coleridge),

Ov. Am. 1, 1, 27. —

With in or ad and acc., to rise to or against, to attempt, assume, attack, etc. ( poet. and late Lat.):

in Teucros Aetolis surgit ab Arpis Tydides,

Verg. A. 10, 28: surrecturus in vires, si ipse quoque lacesseretur, Amm. 31, 3, 4:

Procopius in res surrexerat novas,

id. 26, 5, 8:

ad motum certaminum civilium avide surrecturus,

id. 21, 15, 1:

ad insontium pericula surrexerunt,

id. 21, 13, 14; App. M. 7, p. 198, 3.

ex-aedĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To finish building, to build up, erect, construct (rare but class.).

Lit.: oppidum, * Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 2; cf. Liv. 30, 1 fin.: Capitolium (with efficere), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 19:

domos et villas,

Sall. C. 12, 3:

templa deum,

Liv. 1, 56:

hibernacula,

id. ib. 30, 3;

navem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18:

hunc mundum,

id. Ac. 2, 40 fin. —

Trop., to finish, complete:

ne graveris exaedificare id opus, quod instituisti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 164; cf.:

suam incohatam ignaviam,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 95.—

To turn out of doors:

me ex his aedibus,

Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 3.