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a multitude of objects of the same kind

  • 1 acervus

    ăcervus, i, m. [v. 2. acer], a multitude of objects of the same kind, rising in a heap.
    I.
    Prop.
    A.
    A heap considered as a body:

    frumenti,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 55; cf. id. Cas. 1, 1, 38; Att. ap. Non. 192, 3:

    altus,

    Lucr. 3, 198; 1, 775:

    ut acervus ex sui generis granis, sic beata vita ex sui similibus partibus effici debeat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 15:

    acervi corporum,

    id. Cat. 3, 10:

    pecuniae,

    id. Agr. 2, 22:

    tritici,

    id. Ac. 2, 29:

    farris,

    Verg. G. 1, 185; thus Ovid calls Chaos: caecus acervus, M. 1, 24.—
    B.
    A heap considered as a multitude (cf. Germ. Haufen and Eng. colloq. heap):

    aeris et auri,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 47.—
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    In gen., a multitude:

    facinorum,

    Cic. Sull. 27:

    officiorum negotiorumque,

    Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 27: praeceptorum, Ov. Rem. Am. 424 al.—
    B.
    Esp., in dialectics, t. t., a sophism formed by accumulation, Gr. sôreitês, Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 49; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 47; cf. acervalis.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > acervus

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