To enrich

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to enrich, make wealthy.

to enrich, endow, make wealthy.

augĕo, auxi, auctum, 2, v. a. and n. ( perf subj. auxitis = auxeritis, Liv. 29, 27: auceta: saepe aucta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.) [Gr. auxô auxanô; Lith. augu, and augmu = growth; Sanscr. vaksh; Goth. vahsjan, and auka = growth; Germ. wachsen; Engl. wax; also allied to vegeo vegetus, vigeo vigor, vigil [p. 204] v. Curt. pp. 67, 186 sq., and Bopp, Gloss. p. 304 b].

Act., to increase, to nourish (orig., to produce, bring forth that not already in existence; in which signification only the derivative auctor is now found).

1.. To increase, enlarge, augment, strengthen, advance that which is already in existence (class. in prose and poetry; syn.: adaugeo, amplio, amplifico): Quicquid est hoc, omnia animat, format, alit, auget, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131:

cibus auget corpus alitque,

Lucr. 1, 859:

redductum (animale genus) daedala tellus alit atque auget generatim pabula praebens,

id. 1, 229; 5, 220; 5, 322;

6, 946: virīs,

id. 6, 342:

in augendā re,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2; 14; so,

in augendā obruitur re,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 68:

rem strenuus auge,

increase your gains, id. ib. 1, 7, 71:

opes,

Nep. Thras. 2, 4:

possessiones,

id. Att. 12, 2:

divitias,

Vulg. Prov 22, 16:

dotem et munera,

ib. Gen. 34, 12:

rem publicam agris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18; so Tac. H 1, 79:

aerarium,

id. A. 3, 25:

vallum et turres,

id. H. 4, 35:

classem,

Suet. Ner. 3:

tributa,

id. Vesp. 16:

pretium,

Vulg. Ezech. 16, 31:

numerum,

Suet. Aug. 37, and Vulg. Deut. 20, 19 al.:

morbum,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 54:

suspitionem,

id. Eun. 3, 1, 46; Suet. Tit. 5:

industriam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 25:

molestiam,

Cic. Fl. 12:

dolorem alicui,

id. Att. 11, 22 vitium ventris, id. Cael. 19:

peccatum,

Vulg. Exod. 9, 34:

furorem,

ib. Num. 32, 14:

benevolentiam,

Cic. Lael. 9, 30: animum alicujus, to increase one ' s courage, id. Att. 10, 14; so,

animos,

Stat. Th. 10, 23:

vocem,

to strengthen, raise, Suet. Claud. 33; id. Ner. 20' hostias, to increase, multiply, id. Aug. 96:

ego te augebo et multiplicabo,

Vulg. Gen. 48, 4 al. — Poet.:

nuper et istae Auxerunt volucrum victae certamine turbam,

i. e. have been changed into birds, Ov. M. 5, 301.—

Trop., to magnify, to exalt, to extol, embellish, to praise (syn.:

laudo, laude afficere, verbis extollere, orno): homo tenuis non verbis auget suum munus, sed etiam extenuat,

Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70:

aliquid augere atque ornare,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94; so,

rem laudando,

id. Brut. 12, 47:

munus principis,

Plin. Pan. 38 al. —

Aliquem (aliquid) aliquā re, to furaish abundantly with something, to heap upon, give to, to enrich, endow, bless, load with: lunae pars ignibus aucta, the part that is entirely filled with fire, Lucr 5, 722: 3. 630: Tantā laetitiā auctus sum, ut nil constet, poët, ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 14 oaque vos omnia bene juvetis, bonis auctibus auxitis, old form of prayer in Liv. 29, 27:

alter te scientia augere potest, altera exemplis,

the one can enrich you with learning, the other furnish you with examples, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 1:

aliquid divitiis,

id. Agr. 2, 26, 69:

commodis,

id. Phil. 11, 14 fin.:

senectus augeri solet consilio, auctoritate, sententiā,

id. Sen. 6, 17:

gratulatione,

id. Phil. 14, 6:

honore,

id. ib. 9, 6:

honoribus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 11; so Tac. A. 6, 8:

honoribus praemiisque,

Suet. Caes. 52; id. Vit. 5: augeri damno, to be enriched with a loss (said comically), Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 15:

liberalitate,

Tac. A. 3, 8:

largitione,

id. ib. 13, 18:

nomine imperatorio,

id. ib. 1, 3:

cognomento Augustae,

id. ib. 12, 26 et saep.—Also without abl.:

Di me equidem omnes adjuvant, augent, amant,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 27, and id. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

aliquem augere atque ornare,

to advance, Cic. Fam. 7, 17:

aut augendi alterius aut minuendi sui causā aliquid dicere,

id. Part. Or. 6, 22 solum te commendat augetque temporis spatium, honors, Plin. Pan. 24; so id. ib. 26; Suet. Claud. 12.—

In the lang. of religion, t. t. (like mactare, adolere, etc.), to honor, reverence, worship by offerings:

Aliquid cedo, Qui vicini hanc nostram augeam aram [Apoliinis],

Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 10:

si quā ipse meis venatibus auxi, etc.,

Verg. A. 9, 407.—

Neutr., to grow, increase, become greater (rare; syn.: augesco, cresco, incresco; on this use of vbs. com. act., v. Ellis ad Cat. 22, 11): eo res eorum auxit, Cato ap. Gell. 18, 12, 7:

usque adeo parcunt fetus augentque labore,

Lucr. 2, 1163:

ignoscendo populi Romani magnitudinem auxisse,

Sall. H. 1 (Fragm. Orat. Philipp. contra Lepid. §

6): O decus eximium magnis virtutibus augens,

Cat. 64, 323:

balnea Romae ad infinitum auxere numerum,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 122; 2, 16, 13, § 71:

veram potentiam augere,

Tac. A. 4, 41 (Halm, augeri).—Hence, auctus, a, um, P. a., enlarged, increased, great, abundant; in posit. only as subst.:

auctum vocabatur spatium, quod super definitum modum victoriae adjungitur,

Paul. Ex Fest. p. 14 Müll. — Comp.:

tanto mi aegritudo auctior est in animo,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 2:

auctior est animi vis,

Lucr. 3, 450:

auctior et amplior majestas,

Liv. 4, 2; 3, 68; 25, 16:

auctius atque Di melius fecere,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 3.—

* Sup.: auctissima basis, Treb. Gall. 18.— Adv. probably not in use, for in App. Met. 4, p. 290 Oud., altius is the correct reading.

col-lŏcŭplēto ( conl-), āvi, 1, v. a., to make very rich, to enrich (prob. only in the foll. exs.).

Prop.:

se,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 17.—

Trop., to embellish, enrich, adorn:

rei honestandae et collocupletandae causā,

Auct. Her. 2, 18, 28.

col-lŏcŭplēto ( conl-), āvi, 1, v. a., to make very rich, to enrich (prob. only in the foll. exs.).

Prop.:

se,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 17.—

Trop., to embellish, enrich, adorn:

rei honestandae et collocupletandae causā,

Auct. Her. 2, 18, 28.

lŏcū̆plēto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [locuples], to make rich, enrich (syn. dito).

Lit.: auro suas domus, Att. ap. Gell. 14, 1, 34:

homines fortunis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26:

maxima auri argentique praeda locupletatus,

id. Rep. 2, 24, 44; id. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 80:

Africam equis, armis, viris, pecunia,

Nep. Hamilc. 4, 1:

cives,

Cic. Rep. 2, 9, 15:

celeriter locupletari,

to grow rich, Col. 6 praef. § 4.—

Trop., to enrich, etc.:

sapientem locupletat ipsa natura,

Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 90:

ipsam eloquentiam graviorum artium instrumento,

id. Brut. 97, 331:

templum picturis,

i. e. to decorate, adorn, id. Inv. 2, 1.

ŏpīmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [opimus], to fatten, make fat (post-Aug.).

Lit.:

turtures,

Col. 8, 7, 5; 8, 9, 2.—

Transf.

Of the soil, to make fruitful, to fertilize: terram, App. de Mundo, p. 68, 6.—

To enrich, to make rich or abundant, to fill, load:

auctumnum, Pomona, tuum September opimat,

Aus. Ecl. de Mensib. 9.—

Trop., to honor, glorify: numina victimis, Mart. Cap. poët. 9, § 914.—

To enrich, Aus. Ep. 15, 1.—Hence, ŏpīmātus, a, um, P. a., fat (post-class.):

abdomen,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 105.

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to enrich, make wealthy.

bĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [akin to benus, bonus, and, acc. to Fick, connected with deidô, deinos], to make happy, to bless (as verb. finit. rare, and mostly poet. for fortuno, beatum efficio; not in Cic.).

In gen., to gladden, rejoice, refresh:

hoc me beat,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 12:

foris aliquantillum etiam quod gusto, id beat,

id. Capt. 1, 2, 34:

ecquid beo te?

does that gladden thee? Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47.—Hence, in colloq. lang. beas or beasti, that delights me, I am rejoiced at that, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 66; Ter. And. 1, 1, 79.—

Aliquem aliquā re, to make happy, reward with, enrich:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29:

seu te... bearis Interiore notā Falerni,

id. ib. 2, 3, 7:

ne dominus Munere te parvo beet,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 75:

Latium beabit divite linguā,

id. ib. 2, 2, 121.—Hence, bĕātus, a, um, P. a.

Happy, prosperous, blessed, fortunate (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf.:

felix, fortunatus): neque ulla alia huic verbo, cum beatum dicimus, subjecta notio est, nisi, secretis malis omnibus, cumulata bonorum complexio,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 29:

hic tyrannus ipse judicavit quam esset beatus,

id. ib. 5, 20, 61:

qui beatus est, non intellego, quid requirat, ut sit beatior: si est enim quod desit, ne beatus quidem est,

id. ib. 5, 8, 23:

beatus, ni unum hoc desit,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 18; Afran. ap. Non. p. 517, 17:

beatus ille, qui procul negotiis, etc.,

Hor. Epod. 2, 1:

nihil est ab omni Parte beatum,

id. C. 2, 16, 28:

beatissima vita,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 8, 23.—

Transf.:

satisne videtur declarasse Dionysius nihil ei esse beatum, cui, etc.,

a cause of happiness, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62.—

Subst.

bĕāti, ōrum, m., the happy, fortunate persons:

istam oscitantem sapientiam Scaevolarum et ceterorum beatorum concedamus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:

Phraaten numero beatorum Eximit Virtus,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 18.—

bĕātum, i, n. ( = beatitas, beatitudo, q. v.), happiness, blessedness:

in quā sit ipsum etiam beatum,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

ex bonis, quae sola honesta sunt, efficiendum est beatum,

id. Tusc. 5, 15, 45.—

Esp.

Of outward prosperity, opulent, wealthy, rich, in good circumstances:

Dionysius tyrannus fuit opulentissumae et beatissumae civitatis (sc. Syracusarum),

Cic. N.D. 3, 33, 81:

res omnes quibus abundant ii, qui beati putantur,

id. ib. 2, 37, 95; Plaut. Curc. 3, 1:

ut eorum ornatus... hominis non beatissimi suspicionem prae, beret,

Nep. Ages. 8, 2; Hor. C. 2, 4, 13; 2, 18, 14; 3, 7, 3; 3, 16, 32; 3, 29, 11; id. S. 2-8, 1; id. Epod. 16, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 15, 34.— As subst.: bĕāti, ōrum, m., the rich:

noli nobilibus, noli conferre beatis,

Prop. 2, 9, 33.—

Poet., of inanimate things, rich, abundant, excellent, splendid, magnificent:

gazae,

Hor. C. 1, 29, 1:

arces,

id. ib. 2, 6, 21:

Cyprus,

id. ib. 3, 26, 9:

copia,

id. C.S. 59:

rus,

id. Ep. 1, 10, 14.—With abl., Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

nectar,

Mart. 9, 12, 5; Cat. 68, 14: argentum felix omnique beatius auro, Ov P 2, 8, 5.— Trop.:

ubertas,

overflowing, Quint. 10, 1, 109:

copia,

id. 10, 1, 61:

eventus,

Tac. Dial. 9.—

Late Lat., blessed, i. e. deceased, dead:

quem cum beatum fuisse Sallustius respondisset, intellexit occisum,

Amm. 25, 3, 21:

beatae memoriae,

of blessed memory, Hier. Ep. ad Marc. 24; cf.: si nobis, cum ex hac vitā emigraverimus, in beatorum insulis inmortale aevum, ut fabulae ferunt, degere liceret, Cic. ap. Aug. Trin. 14, 9 (Fragm. Hortens. 40 B. and K.).—

Beatissimus, in late Lat., a title of the higher clergy, Cod. 1, 4, 13; Auct. Collat. 9, 6; Novell. 123, 3 al. —Hence, adv.: bĕātē, happily, Cat. 14, 10:

vivere,

Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 33; id. Div. 2, 1, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 12, 29; id. Fin. 2, 27, 86; id. Par 1, 3, 15.— Comp., Sen. Ep. 92, 24.— Sup., Sen. Cons. Helv. 9, 4.

bĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [akin to benus, bonus, and, acc. to Fick, connected with deidô, deinos], to make happy, to bless (as verb. finit. rare, and mostly poet. for fortuno, beatum efficio; not in Cic.).

In gen., to gladden, rejoice, refresh:

hoc me beat,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 12:

foris aliquantillum etiam quod gusto, id beat,

id. Capt. 1, 2, 34:

ecquid beo te?

does that gladden thee? Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47.—Hence, in colloq. lang. beas or beasti, that delights me, I am rejoiced at that, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 66; Ter. And. 1, 1, 79.—

Aliquem aliquā re, to make happy, reward with, enrich:

caelo Musa beat,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 29:

seu te... bearis Interiore notā Falerni,

id. ib. 2, 3, 7:

ne dominus Munere te parvo beet,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 75:

Latium beabit divite linguā,

id. ib. 2, 2, 121.—Hence, bĕātus, a, um, P. a.

Happy, prosperous, blessed, fortunate (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf.:

felix, fortunatus): neque ulla alia huic verbo, cum beatum dicimus, subjecta notio est, nisi, secretis malis omnibus, cumulata bonorum complexio,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 29:

hic tyrannus ipse judicavit quam esset beatus,

id. ib. 5, 20, 61:

qui beatus est, non intellego, quid requirat, ut sit beatior: si est enim quod desit, ne beatus quidem est,

id. ib. 5, 8, 23:

beatus, ni unum hoc desit,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 18; Afran. ap. Non. p. 517, 17:

beatus ille, qui procul negotiis, etc.,

Hor. Epod. 2, 1:

nihil est ab omni Parte beatum,

id. C. 2, 16, 28:

beatissima vita,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 8, 23.—

Transf.:

satisne videtur declarasse Dionysius nihil ei esse beatum, cui, etc.,

a cause of happiness, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62.—

Subst.

bĕāti, ōrum, m., the happy, fortunate persons:

istam oscitantem sapientiam Scaevolarum et ceterorum beatorum concedamus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144:

Phraaten numero beatorum Eximit Virtus,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 18.—

bĕātum, i, n. ( = beatitas, beatitudo, q. v.), happiness, blessedness:

in quā sit ipsum etiam beatum,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

ex bonis, quae sola honesta sunt, efficiendum est beatum,

id. Tusc. 5, 15, 45.—

Esp.

Of outward prosperity, opulent, wealthy, rich, in good circumstances:

Dionysius tyrannus fuit opulentissumae et beatissumae civitatis (sc. Syracusarum),

Cic. N.D. 3, 33, 81:

res omnes quibus abundant ii, qui beati putantur,

id. ib. 2, 37, 95; Plaut. Curc. 3, 1:

ut eorum ornatus... hominis non beatissimi suspicionem prae, beret,

Nep. Ages. 8, 2; Hor. C. 2, 4, 13; 2, 18, 14; 3, 7, 3; 3, 16, 32; 3, 29, 11; id. S. 2-8, 1; id. Epod. 16, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 15, 34.— As subst.: bĕāti, ōrum, m., the rich:

noli nobilibus, noli conferre beatis,

Prop. 2, 9, 33.—

Poet., of inanimate things, rich, abundant, excellent, splendid, magnificent:

gazae,

Hor. C. 1, 29, 1:

arces,

id. ib. 2, 6, 21:

Cyprus,

id. ib. 3, 26, 9:

copia,

id. C.S. 59:

rus,

id. Ep. 1, 10, 14.—With abl., Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

nectar,

Mart. 9, 12, 5; Cat. 68, 14: argentum felix omnique beatius auro, Ov P 2, 8, 5.— Trop.:

ubertas,

overflowing, Quint. 10, 1, 109:

copia,

id. 10, 1, 61:

eventus,

Tac. Dial. 9.—

Late Lat., blessed, i. e. deceased, dead:

quem cum beatum fuisse Sallustius respondisset, intellexit occisum,

Amm. 25, 3, 21:

beatae memoriae,

of blessed memory, Hier. Ep. ad Marc. 24; cf.: si nobis, cum ex hac vitā emigraverimus, in beatorum insulis inmortale aevum, ut fabulae ferunt, degere liceret, Cic. ap. Aug. Trin. 14, 9 (Fragm. Hortens. 40 B. and K.).—

Beatissimus, in late Lat., a title of the higher clergy, Cod. 1, 4, 13; Auct. Collat. 9, 6; Novell. 123, 3 al. —Hence, adv.: bĕātē, happily, Cat. 14, 10:

vivere,

Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 33; id. Div. 2, 1, 2; id. Tusc. 2, 12, 29; id. Fin. 2, 27, 86; id. Par 1, 3, 15.— Comp., Sen. Ep. 92, 24.— Sup., Sen. Cons. Helv. 9, 4.