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1 cumulus
cŭmŭlus, i, m. [Sanscr. çva, to swell; Gr. kueô, kuô; cf. kuma], a heap, as coming to a point, a pile, a mass piled up (class.;II.esp. freq. in the signif. II.): in hoc immenso aliarum super alias acervatarum legum cumulo,
Liv. 3, 34, 6; cf.:hostium coacervatorum,
id. 22, 7, 5; 5, 48, 3:corpus obrutum superstratis Gallorum cumulis,
id. 9, 29, 19; and: armorum cumulos coacervare id. 5, 39, 1:caesorum corporum,
id. 22, 59, 3:saxei,
Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 111:eminens (aquae in poculis),
id. 2, 65, 65, § 163:aquarum,
Ov. M. 15, 508:pulveris,
id. ib. 14, 137:harenae,
Verg. G. 1, 105: insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons. follows with its mass, id. A. 1, 105; cf. id. ib. 2, 498. —A heap added to an accumulated mass or to a full measure (cf. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. auctarium, p. 14, 17 Müll.), a surplus, overplus, accession, addition, increase; a summit, point, crown, etc., Cic. Prov. Cons. 11, 26: ut ad illam praedam damnatio Sex. Roscii [p. 497] velut cumulus accedat, id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; cf.:B.ad summam laetitiam meam magnus ex illius adventu cumulus accedet,
id. Att. 4, 19 (18):cumulus commendationis tuae,
id. ib. 16, 3, 3; and:cui gloriae amplior adhuc cumulus accessit,
Suet. Tib. 17:accesserint in cumulum manubiae vestrorum imperatorum,
as an addition, Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:aliquem cumulum artibus adferre,
id. de Or. 3, 35, 143:magnum beneficium tuum magno cumulo auxeris,
id. Fam. 13, 62 fin.; cf. Ov. M. 11, 206:Otho pontificatus honoratis jam senibus cumulum dignitatis addidit,
Tac. H. 1, 77:mille equites, cumulus prosperis aut subsidium laborantibus, ducerentur,
id. ib. 2, 24 fin.:pro mercedis cumulo,
Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Ov. M. 14, 472. —In rhet.:peroratio, quam cumulum quidam, alii conclusionem vocant,
Quint. 6, 1, 1; cf. id. 7, prooem. § 1; 8, 3, 88.
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