to throw in great numbers

con-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a.

To pour, mingle, or mix together (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.:

unā multa jura (cocos),

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 120; cf.:

jus confusum sectis herbis,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 67:

(venenum) in poculo, cum ita confusum esset ut secerni nullo modo posset,

Cic. Clu. 62, 173; Dig. 6, 1, 3, § 2:

cum ignis oculorum cum eo igne, qui est ob os offusus, se confudit et contulit,

Cic. Univ. 14:

cumque tuis lacrimis lacrimas confundere nostras,

Ov. H. 2, 95:

confundere crebroque permiscere mel, acetum, oleum,

Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

omnia arenti ramo (Medea),

Ov. M. 7, 278:

(Alpheus) Siculis confunditur undis,

mingles, Verg. A. 3, 696:

mixtum flumini subibat mare,

Curt. 9, 9, 7:

(cornua cervi contrita) pulvereae confusa farinae,

Ov. Med. Fac. 61:

aes auro,

Plin. 34, 2, 3, § 5.—

Meton.

In gen., to mingle, unite, join, combine (rare):

(decorum) totum illud quidem est cum virtute confusum, sed mente cogitatione distinguitur,

Cic. Off. 1, 27, 95; so,

vera cum falsis,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

est id quidem in totam orationem confundendum,

id. de Or. 2, 79, 322:

vis quaedam sentiens quae est toto confusa mundo,

id. Div. 1, 52, 118:

sermones in unum,

Liv. 7, 12, 14; cf. id. 40, 46, 13:

duo populi in unum confusi,

id. 1, 23, 2: diversum confusa genus panthera camelo ( = camelopardalis, the giraffe), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 195:

rusticus urbano confusus,

id. A. P. 213; cf.:

quinque continuos dactylos,

Quint. 9, 4, 49:

subjecta sibi vocalis in unum sonum coalescere et confundi nequiret,

id. 1, 7, 26.—Of bringing together in speech:

cuperem equidem utrumque (una dijudicare), sed est difficile confundere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; cf. id. Brut. 26, 100.— Poet.:

proelia cum aliquo,

Hor. C. 1, 17, 23 al. —More freq.,

Esp., with the idea of confounding, disarranging, to confound, confuse, jumble together, bring into disorder:

an tu haec ita confundis et perturbas, ut quicumque velit, quod velit, quo modo velit possit dedicare?

Cic. Dom. 49, 127:

omnis corporis atque animi sensus,

Lucr. 2, 946; cf. id. 2, 439:

aëra per multum confundi verba necesse'st Et conturbari vocem,

id. 4, 558: confusa venit vox inque pedita, id. 4, 562 sq.:

censeo omnis in oratione esse quasi permixtos et confusos pedes,

Cic. Or. 57, 195:

particulae primum confusae postea in ordinem adductae a mente divinā,

id. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

signa et ordines peditum atque equitum,

Liv. 9, 27, 10:

jura gentium,

id. 4, 1, 2:

priora,

Quint. 10, 5, 23:

ordinem disciplinae,

Tac. H. 1, 60; cf.:

ordinem militiae,

id. ib. 2, 93:

lusum,

Suet. Claud. 33:

annum (together with conturbare),

id. Aug. 31 et saep.: foedus, to violate (suncheein, Hom. Il. 4, 269), Verg. A. 5, 496; 12, 290:

summa imis,

Curt. 8, 8, 8:

imperium, promissa, preces confundit in unum,

mingles together, Ov. M. 4, 472:

jura et nomina,

id. ib. 10, 346:

fasque nefasque,

id. ib. 6, 585:

in chaos,

id. ib. 2, 299:

mare caelo,

Juv. 6, 283 (cf.:

caelum terris miscere,

id. 2, 25):

ora fractis in ossibus,

i. e. to disfigure the features, make them undistinguishable, Ov. M. 5, 58; Sen. Troad. 1117; cf.:

omnia corporis lineamenta,

Petr. 105, 10; Just. 3, 5, 11;

and vultus,

Luc. 2, 191; 3, 758; Stat. Th. 2, 232:

oris notas,

Curt. 8, 3, 13:

si irruptione fluminis fines agri confudit inundatio,

Dig. 19, 2, 31:

ossa Non agnoscendo confusa reliquit in ore,

Ov. M. 12, 251:

vultum Lunae,

to cloud, obscure, id. ib. 14, 367.—Of disordered health:

neque apparet, quod corpus confuderit,

Cels. 3, 5, 3.—

Trop., of intellectual confusion, to disturb, disconcert, confound, perplex (freq. after the Aug. per.;

perh. not in Cic.): audientium animos, etc.,

Liv. 45, 42, 1; 34, 50, 1:

cum confusa memoria esset,

id. 5, 50, 6:

nos (fulmina),

Quint. 8, 3, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 10, 2:

me gravi dolore (nuntius),

id. ib. 5, 5, 1; Quint. 1, 12, 1:

intellectum,

Plin. 21, 18, 70, § 117:

inmitem animum imagine tristi,

Tac. H. 1, 44:

Alexander pudore confusus,

Curt. 7, 7, 23:

illum ingens confundit honos inopinaque turbat gloria,

Stat. Th. 8, 283; Juv. 7, 68:

diligentiam monitoris confundit multitudo,

Col. 1, 9, 7.—

To diffuse, suffuse, spread over (rare).

Prop.:

cibus in eam venam, quae cava appellatur, confunditur,

diffuses itself, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137:

vinum in ea (vasa),

Col. 12, 28 fin.:

cruorem in fossam,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 28.—

Poet., to throw in great numbers:

tela per foramina muri,

Sil. 14, 333.—

Trop.:

aliquid in totam orationem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322:

vim quandam sentientem atque divinam, quae toto confusa mundo sit,

id. Div. 2, 15, 35: rosa ingenuo confusa rubore, suffused with, etc., Col. poët. 10, 260.—Hence, confūsus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 2.), brought into disorder, confused, perplexed, disorderly (class. in prose and poetry):

ruina mundi,

Lucr. 6, 607; cf.

natura,

id. 6, 600:

vox,

id. 4, 562; 4, 613; cf.:

oratio confusa, perturbata,

Cic. de Or. 3, 13, 50:

stilus,

Quint. 1, 1, 28:

verba,

Ov. M. 2, 666; 12, 55; 15, 606:

suffragium,

Liv. 26, 18, 9 Drak. ad loc. (cf.:

confusio suffragiorum,

Cic. Mur. 23, 47):

confusissimus mos,

Suet. Aug. 44:

clamor,

Liv. 30, 6, 2.—With abl.:

ipse confusus animo,

Liv. 6, 6, 7; cf. id. 35, 35, 18:

maerore,

id. 35, 15, 9:

eodem metu,

Quint. 1, 10, 48:

somnio,

Suet. Caes. 7:

irā, pudore,

Curt. 7, 7, 23; cf. Ov. H. 21, 111; id. Tr. 3, 1, 81:

fletu,

Petr. 134, 6:

turbā querelarum,

Just. 32, 2, 3 al.:

ex recenti morsu animi,

Liv. 6, 34, 8.— Absol.:

Masinissa ex praetorio in tabernaculum suum confusus concessit,

Liv. 30, 15, 2:

nunc onusti cibo et vino perturbata et confusa cernimus,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60; Petr. 74, 10; 91, 1 al.:

confusus atque incertus animi,

Liv. 1, 7, 6:

rediit confuso voltu,

id. 41, 15, 1; Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 11:

ore confuso,

Curt. 6, 7, 18; cf.:

confusior facies,

Tac. A. 4, 63:

pavor confusior,

Plin. 7, prooem. 1, § 5.— Hence, confūsē, adv., confusedly, without order, disorderly (several times in Cic.; elsewh. rare;

not in Quint.): confuse et permiste dispergere aliquid,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49:

loqui,

id. Fin. 2, 9, 27; cf.:

confuse varieque sententias dicere,

Gell. 14, 2, 17:

agere,

Cic. N. D. 3, 8, 19:

utraque res conjuncte et confuse comparata est, Auct. her. 4, 47, 60: universis mancipiis constitutum pretium,

in the lump, Dig. 21, 1, 36.—

* Comp.:

confusius acta res est,

Cic. Phil. 8, 1, 1.— Sup. not in use.

con-gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3, v. a., to bear, carry, or bring together, to collect; to prepare, to make, build, heap up, etc. (class. and freq.).

Lit.

With acc.:

undique, quod idoneum ad muniendum putarent,

Nep. Them. 6, 5:

congestis undique saccis,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 70:

cetera aedificanti utilia,

Quint. 7, prooem. §

1: caedi arbores et saxa congeri jubet,

Curt. 8, 2, 24:

alimenta undique,

id. 7, 11, 1:

frondem,

id. 8, 10, 17:

virgulta arida,

Suet. Caes. 84:

robora,

Ov. M. 12, 515:

arma,

id. ib. 14, 777:

tura,

id. ib. 7, 160; cf.:

turea dona,

Verg. A. 6, 224:

epulas alicui,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 70 sq.:

cibaria sibi,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 32:

viaticum,

Cic. Planc. 10, 26:

divitias sibi fulvo auro,

Tib. 1, 1, 1:

opes,

Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 136:

congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus,

Ov. M. 15, 89:

nemus,

i. e. wood, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1216; cf.

silvas,

id. ib. 506:

siccā congestā pulvere barbā,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 31:

terram,

Col. Arb. 3, 6; cf. Dig. 19, 2, 57:

oscula congerimus properata,

to join, add one to another, Ov. H. 17 (18), 113.—

With acc., and a designation of place to, at, or in which, etc., any thing is brought or heaped up:

hasce herbas in suum alvum,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 34; cf. Ov. M. 6, 651:

in cellulam patris penum omnem congerebam,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 18:

laticem in vas,

Lucr. 3, 1009; cf. id. 3, 936:

Midae dormienti formicae in os tritici grana congesserunt,

Cic. Div. 1, 36, 78; cf.:

in os pueri,

id. ib. 2, 31, 66:

excrementa in unum locum,

Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 25; Suet. Vesp. 5; Sen. Oedip. 870:

scuta illi (sc. virgini) pro aureis donis congesta,

Liv. 1, 11, 8; cf. Suet. Ner. 19:

sestertium millies in culinam,

to expend, Sen. ad Helv. 10:

huc amnes vastos congerit tellus,

Val. Fl. 4, 717:

Pindo congestus Athos,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1153:

uni (digito anulos),

Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 25:

humum corbulae,

Suet. Ner. 19.—

In partic.

Of weapons, missiles, etc., to throw in great numbers, accumulate, shower, etc.:

lanceas,

Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 15:

saxa in caput alicujus,

Sen. Oedip. 871:

in ipsum Porum tela,

Curt. 8, 14, 38:

congestis telis,

Tac. A. 2, 11.—Hence, poet.:

ictus alicui,

Val. Fl. 4, 307:

plagas mortuo,

Phaedr. 4, 1, 11.—

To make, build, construct, etc., by bringing or heaping together:

Echinades insulae ab Acheloo amne congestae,

Plin. 2, 85, 87, § 201:

aram sepulcri arboribus,

Verg. A. 6, 178:

oppida manu,

id. G. 1, 256:

pauperis et tuguri congestum caespite culmen,

id. E. 1, 69.—So of birds, insects, etc.:

lucifugis congesta cubilia blattis,

Verg. G. 4, 243:

nidum,

Ser. Samm. 10, 30; and absol. notavi Ipse locum aëriae quo congessere palumbes (sc. nidum), Verg. E. 3, 69; Gell. 2, 29, 5 (cf. the full expression:

in nervom ille hodie nidamenta congeret,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 51): apes in alvearium congesserant, Cic. Oecon. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.:

rape, congere, aufer,

Mart. 8, 44, 9.—

Trop.

In discourse, to bring, take, or comprise together, to compile (freq. in Quint.):

operarios omnes,

Cic. Brut. 86, 297:

dicta,

Quint. 6, 3, 5; cf. id. 4, 5, 7:

argumenta (opp. dissolvere),

id. 5, 13, 15:

vana (maledicta),

id. 7, 2, 34:

undique nomina plurimorum poëtarum,

id. 10, 1, 56:

orationem dierum ac noctium studio,

id. 12, 6, 5; cf.:

orationem ex diversis,

id. 2, 11, 7:

figuras,

id. 9, 3, 5: zôê kai psuchê lascivum congeris usque, i. e. you repeat, Mart. 10, 68, 5.—With in:

ut te eripias ex eā, quam ego congessi in hunc sermonem, turbā patronorum,

Cic. Brut. 97, 332; so Quint. 4, 3, 3; 9, 1, 25; 9, 3, 39; 10, 5, 23.—

To put something upon one in a hostile or friendly manner, to accumulate, heap upon, to impart, ascribe to, to impute, attribute to; constr. class. with ad or in; post-Aug. also with dat. pers.: ad quem di [p. 419] atque homines omnia ornamenta congessissent, Cic. Deiot. 4, 12:

ne plus aequo quid in amicitiam congeratur,

id. Lael. 16, 58:

ingentia beneficia in aliquem,

Liv. 42, 11, 2; 30, 1, 4:

congerere juveni consulatus, triumphos,

Tac. A. 1, 4 fin.; cf.:

ambitiosae majestati quicquid potuimus titulorum congessimus,

Sen. Clem. 1, 14, 2; Suet. Calig. 15; id. Aug. 98:

mortuo laudes congessit,

id. Tit. 11:

mala alicui,

Sen. Contr. 1, 7, 2: meli mou, psuchê mou congeris usque, Mart. 10, 68, 5:

spes omnis in unum Te mea congesta est,

Ov. M. 8, 113:

in unum omnia,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117; cf.: iis nihil, quo expleri possit eorum meritum, tributurum populum Romanum, si omnia simul congesserit, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 16, 7.—Esp., of crimes, etc.:

maledicta in aliquem,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 15; cf.:

congestis probris,

Suet. Tib. 54:

quae (crimina) postea sunt in eum congesta,

Cic. Mil. 24, 64:

causas alicujus rei in aliquem,

Liv. 3, 38, 7.— Hence, * congestus, a, um, P. a., lit. brought together; hence, in pregn. signif., pressed together, thick:

gobio congestior alvo,

Aus. Mos. 132.—

* Adv.: congestē, briefly, summarily:

haec breviter et congeste,

Capitol. Marc. Aur. 19 fin.

con-gĕro, ōnis, m. [1. congero], a thief, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 6; cf. Fulg. p. 566, 13: congerones qui aliena ad se congregant; so also 2. gero.