formed

(+ abl. etc.) to be formed of, consist/ stop, stay.

to take one's stand, stand still, stop, be posted.

(+ in) to depend on, rely on.

ăcervus, i, m. [v. 2. acer], a multitude of objects of the same kind, rising in a heap.

Prop.

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.—

A heap considered as a multitude (cf. Germ. Haufen and Eng. colloq. heap):

aeris et auri,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 47.—

Fig.

In gen., a multitude:

facinorum,

Cic. Sull. 27:

officiorum negotiorumque,

Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 27: praeceptorum, Ov. Rem. Am. 424 al.—

Esp., in dialectics, t. t., a sophism formed by accumulation, Gr. sôreitês, Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 49; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 47; cf. acervalis.

aggestus ( adg-), ūs, m. [id.], a bearing or carrying to a place, a collecting, an accumulation, collection (post-Aug. and rare):

pabuli, materiae, lignorum,

Tac. A. 1. 35:

copiarum,

id. H. 3, 60:

harenae,

Aur. Vict. Ep. 3.

aggestus, i, m., or aggestum ( adg-), i, n. [id.], an elevation formed like a dike or mound:

prunas unius aggesti inseruere juncturis,

Amm. 20, 11; 19, 8.

aggestus ( adg-), ūs, m. [id.], a bearing or carrying to a place, a collecting, an accumulation, collection (post-Aug. and rare):

pabuli, materiae, lignorum,

Tac. A. 1. 35:

copiarum,

id. H. 3, 60:

harenae,

Aur. Vict. Ep. 3.

aggestus, i, m., or aggestum ( adg-), i, n. [id.], an elevation formed like a dike or mound:

prunas unius aggesti inseruere juncturis,

Amm. 20, 11; 19, 8.

ag-grăvo ( adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (first used in the Aug. per., and only in prose writers; perh. formed by Livy, who uses it very often), to add to the weight of, to make heavier.

Lit.:

adgravatur pondus,

Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 117:

adgravavit jugum nostrum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 12, 10:

compedem meum,

ib. Thren. 3, 7.—

Fig.

In gen., to make worse or more dangerous, [p. 71] to aggravate:

quo (bello) si adgravatae res essent,

Liv. 4, 12:

odor adgravans capita,

Plin. 12, 17, 40, § 79:

ictus,

id. 28, 4, 7, § 37:

vulnera,

id. 28, 3, 6, § 31:

dolorem,

Curt. 8, 10:

proelium,

Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 3:

quare aggravatis corda vestra?

i. e. harden, ib. 1 Reg. 6, 6.—

Esp., to oppress, to burden, annoy, incommode:

sine ope hostis, quae adgravaret,

Liv. 44, 7 fin.:

morbo adgravante (eum),

Suet. Caes. 1:

beneficia rationes nostras adgravatura,

Sen. Ben. 4, 13:

argumenta, quae per se nihil reum adgravare videantur,

appear to be without weight, Quint. 5, 7, 18.

allŭvĭes ( adl-), ēi, f. [alluo].

A pool of water occasioned by the overflowing of the sea or a river: in proximā adluvie pueros exponunt, * Liv. 1, 4.—

Land formed by overflow, alluvial land: fluminum adluvie, * Col. 3, 11, 8.—In the plur.:

mare quietas adluvies temperabat,

App. M. 11, p. 260, 29 Elm.

ar-rĭpĭo ( adr-, B. and K.; arr-, Lachm., Ritschl, Fleck., Merk., Rib., K. and H., Weissenb., Halm), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to seize, snatch, lay hold of, draw a person or thing to one's self (esp. with haste).

In gen.

Lit.:

ut eum eriperet, manum arripuit mordicus: Vix foras me abripui atque effugi,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 1, 7; cf.

the first of the words following, formed by Plaut. after the manner of Aristophanes: Quodsemelarripides Numquampostreddonides,

Pers. 4, 6, 23 Ritschl:

gladium,

id. Capt. 4, 4, 7; Vulg. Gen. 22, 10:

pugionem,

ib. Num. 25, 7:

securim,

ib. Jud. 9, 48:

arma,

Liv. 35, 36:

cultrum,

id. 3, 48:

telum, vestimenta,

Nep. Alcib. 10, 5:

arcus Arripit,

Ov. M. 5, 64:

ensem,

id. ib. 13, 386:

saxum,

Curt. 6, 9:

pileum vel galerum,

Suet. Ner. 26:

scutum e strage,

Tac. A. 3, 23:

sagittam et scutum,

Vulg. Jer. 6, 23:

clipeum,

ib. Isa. 21, 5:

aliquem barbā,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64:

manu,

Liv. 6, 8:

aliquam comā,

Ov. M. 6, 552:

caput capillo,

Suet. Galb. 20: manum alicujus, Auct. B. G. 8, 23; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4.—

Trop., to take to one's self, procure, appropriate, seize:

Arripe opem auxiliumque ad hanc rem,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 65:

vox et gestus subito sumi et aliunde adripi non potest,

Cic. Or. 1, 59, 252:

cognomen sibi ex Aeliorum imaginibus adripuit,

id. Sest. 32:

non debes adripere maledictum ex trivio aut ex scurrarum aliquo convicio,

id. Mur. 6:

libenter adripere facultatem laedendi,

id. Fl. 8, 19:

aliquid ad reprehendendum,

id. N. D. 2, 65, 162:

impedimentum pro occasione arripere,

Liv. 3, 35 al. —

Transf.

In gen., to seize, lay hold of, take possession of, secure:

Sublimem medium arriperem, et capite pronum in terram statuerem,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:

simul arripit ipsum Pendentem,

Verg. A. 9, 561:

medium arripit Servium,

Liv. 1, 48:

quando arripuerit te spiritus Domini malus,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 16, 16; so ib. Luc. 8, 29:

Existit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens, Quamcumque arripuit partim,

Lucr. 6, 661:

quemcumque patrem familias adripuissetis ex aliquo circulo,

you might have taken, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159:

nisi forte eum (dolorem) dicis, qui simul atque adripuit, interficit,

id. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

vitulum,

Vulg. Deut. 9, 21:

leones,

ib. Dan. 6, 24:

navem,

ib. Act. 27, 15:

arrepto repente equo,

Liv. 6, 8:

cohortes arreptas in urbem inducit,

id. 34, 20.— Trop., of the mind, to seize upon with eagerness or haste, to learn quickly or with avidity:

pueri celeriter res innumerabiles adripiunt,

Cic. Sen. 21, 78:

quas (sc. Graecas litteras) quidem sic avide adripui, quasi diuturnam sitim explere cupiens,

id. ib. 8, 26; cf. id. Mur. 30:

Quarum studium etsi senior arripuerat,

Nep. Cato, 3, 2:

quaerit Socrates unde animum adripuerimus, si nullus fuerit in mundo,

Cic. N. D. 3, 11, 26:

quod animus adriperet aut exciperet extrinsecus ex divinitate,

id. Div. 2, 11, 26.—

As a judicial t. t., to bring or summon before a tribunal, to complain of, accuse (cf. rapio;

esp. freq. of those who are complained of after leaving their office): eum te adripuisse, a quo non sis rogatus,

Cic. Planc. 22, 54:

ad quaestionem ipse adreptus est,

id. Clu. 33:

tribunus plebis consules abeuntes magistratu arripuit,

Liv. 2, 54:

arreptus a P. Numitorio Sp. Oppius,

id. 3, 58:

arreptus a viatore,

id. 6, 16:

quaestor ejus in praejudicium aliquot criminibus arreptus est,

Suet. Caes. 23:

inter Sejani conscios arreptus,

id. Vit. 2.—Hence,

In Horace, to attack with ridicule or reproach, to ridicule, satirize: Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim, Sat. 2, 1, 69:

luxuriam et Nomentanum arripe mecum,

id. 2, 3, 224.

at-tĕnŭo ( adt-, Lachm., Merk., Weissenb.; att-, Kayser, K. and H., L. Müller), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to make thin or weak; to thin, attenuate; to weaken, enfeeble; to lessen, diminish.

Lit.: aëna Signa manus dextras ostendunt adtenuari Saepe salutantūm tactu, * Lucr. 1, 317 (cf.:

attritum mentum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43):

bellum (servile) exspectatione Pompeii attenuatum atque imminutum est, adventu sublatum ac sepultum,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 11, 30:

legio proeliis attenuata,

Caes. B. C. 3, 89:

diutino morbo viribus admodum adtenuatis,

Liv. 39, 49; 25, 11:

fame attenuari,

Vulg. Job, 18, 12; ib. Jer. 14, 18:

macie attenuari,

ib. 2 Reg. 13, 4:

sortes adtenuatae,

diminished, Liv. 21, 62:

foliorum exilitate usque in fila attenuatā,

Plin. 21, 6, 16, § 30:

(lingua) attenuans lambendo cutem homines,

id. 11, 37, 65, § 172 al.:

Non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram,

Cat. 64, 41:

adtenuant juvenum vigilatae corpora noctes,

Ov. A. A. 1, 735 (cf. infra, P. a.):

patrias opes,

id. M. 8, 844; so id. P. 4, 5, 38.—

Trop.:

curas lyrā,

Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 16; 4, 6, 18:

luctus,

Albin. ad Liv. 342:

insignem attenuat deus,

brings low, abases, Hor. C. 1, 34, 13:

attenuabit omnes deos terrae,

Vulg. Soph. 2, 11: hujusmodi partes sunt virtutis amplificandae, si suadebimus; attenuandae, si ab his dehortabimur, Auct. ad. Her. 3, 3, 6:

attenuabitur gloria Jacob,

Vulg. Isa. 17, 4.—Hence, attĕnŭātus ( adt-), a, um, P. a., enfeebled, weakened, reduced, weak.

Lit.:

adtenuatus amore,

Ov. M. 3, 489: continuatione laborum, August. ap. Suet. Tib. 21: fortuna rei familiaris attenuatissima, Auct. ad Her. 4, 41:

voce paululum attenuatā,

with a voice a little suppressed, id. ib. 3, 14:

acuta atque attenuata nimis acclamatio,

id. ib. 12, 21.— Comp. not in use. — Sup.: fortunae familiares attenuatissimae, Auct. ad Her. 4, 41, 53.—

Trop.

Feeble, destitute, poor (eccl. Lat.):

Siattenuatus frater tuus vendiderit etc.,

Vulg. Lev. 25, 25; 25, 35; 25, 47; ib. 2 Esdr. 5, 18. —

Esp., of discourse.

Shortened, brief: ipsa illa [pro Roscio] juvenilis redundantia [p. 195] multa habet attenuata, Cic. Or. 30, 108.—

Too much refined, affected:

itaque ejus oratio nimiā religione attenuata doctis et attente audientibus erat illustris,

hence his discourse was so delicately formed, through excessive scrupulousness, Cic. Brut. 82.—

Meagre, dry, without ornament: attenuata (oratio) est, quae demissa est usque ad usitatissimam puri sermonis consuetudinem, Auct. ad Her. 4, 8:

attenuata verborum constructio,

id. ib. 4, 10, 15.—

* Adv.: at-tenuātē, simply:

attenuate presseque dicere,

Cic. Brut. 55, 201.

aggestus ( adg-), ūs, m. [id.], a bearing or carrying to a place, a collecting, an accumulation, collection (post-Aug. and rare):

pabuli, materiae, lignorum,

Tac. A. 1. 35:

copiarum,

id. H. 3, 60:

harenae,

Aur. Vict. Ep. 3.

aggestus, i, m., or aggestum ( adg-), i, n. [id.], an elevation formed like a dike or mound:

prunas unius aggesti inseruere juncturis,

Amm. 20, 11; 19, 8.

aggestus ( adg-), ūs, m. [id.], a bearing or carrying to a place, a collecting, an accumulation, collection (post-Aug. and rare):

pabuli, materiae, lignorum,

Tac. A. 1. 35:

copiarum,

id. H. 3, 60:

harenae,

Aur. Vict. Ep. 3.

aggestus, i, m., or aggestum ( adg-), i, n. [id.], an elevation formed like a dike or mound:

prunas unius aggesti inseruere juncturis,

Amm. 20, 11; 19, 8.

ag-grăvo ( adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (first used in the Aug. per., and only in prose writers; perh. formed by Livy, who uses it very often), to add to the weight of, to make heavier.

Lit.:

adgravatur pondus,

Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 117:

adgravavit jugum nostrum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 12, 10:

compedem meum,

ib. Thren. 3, 7.—

Fig.

In gen., to make worse or more dangerous, [p. 71] to aggravate:

quo (bello) si adgravatae res essent,

Liv. 4, 12:

odor adgravans capita,

Plin. 12, 17, 40, § 79:

ictus,

id. 28, 4, 7, § 37:

vulnera,

id. 28, 3, 6, § 31:

dolorem,

Curt. 8, 10:

proelium,

Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 3:

quare aggravatis corda vestra?

i. e. harden, ib. 1 Reg. 6, 6.—

Esp., to oppress, to burden, annoy, incommode:

sine ope hostis, quae adgravaret,

Liv. 44, 7 fin.:

morbo adgravante (eum),

Suet. Caes. 1:

beneficia rationes nostras adgravatura,

Sen. Ben. 4, 13:

argumenta, quae per se nihil reum adgravare videantur,

appear to be without weight, Quint. 5, 7, 18.

ăgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [ago], as if the supine were agitu; cf.: quaero quaerito.

Lit., to put a thing in motion, to drive or impel (mostly poet., or in more elevated prose; from poetry it passed, after the Aug. per., into common prose).

Of cattle, to drive, conduct (cf. ago):

calcari quadrupedem agitabo advorsum clivom,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 118:

stimulo boves agitat,

Vulg. Eccli. 38, 26:

hanc in curru bijugos agitare leones,

drives her span of lions, Lucr. 2, 602:

agitantur quadrigae,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 41 Müll.:

ad flumina currus,

Verg. G. 3, 18:

jussit agitari currum suum,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 9, 4: lanigeros greges hirtasque capellas, to drive, poet. for to tend, Verg. G. 3, 287:

sacros jugales (dracones),

Ov. M. 5, 661:

quadrigas bigasque et equos desultorios,

Suet. Caes. 39.—

Of the motion of other things, to move, impel, shake:

triremem in portu,

Nep. Dion, 9, 2:

alas,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 21:

manibusque leves agitavit habenas,

id. M. 7, 221:

hastam,

id. ib. 3, 667: caput, to move the head ( in token of assent = annuere), id. ib. 1, 567:

arundinem vento agitatam,

Vulg. Matt. 11, 7.—Esp., of animals, to hunt, chase, pursue: etiamsi excitaturus [p. 72] non sis nec agitaturus feras, Cic. Off. 3, 17:

aquila insectans alias aves atque agitans,

id. Div. 2, 70:

trepidas columbas,

Ov. M. 5, 606; 11, 300:

damas,

id. ib. 10, 539:

cursu timidos onagros,

Verg. G. 3, 409 al. —

Of the motion caused by the wind, to drive to and fro, toss about, agitate, disturb:

ventus enim fit, ubi est agitando percitus aër,

when the air is violently agitated and driven, Lucr. 6, 686:

mare ventorum vi agitari atque turbari,

Cic. Clu. 49 fin.; id. Univ. 3, 7:

freta ponti Incipiunt agitata tumescere,

Verg. G. 1, 357:

aristas,

Ov. A. A. 1, 553:

Zephyris agitata Tempe,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 24:

ventis agitatur pinus,

id. ib. 2, 10, 9:

veteres agitantur orni,

id. ib. 1, 9, 12:

agitaret aura capillos,

id. Epod. 15, 9.—

Of the motion caused by the water: agitata numina Trojae, tossed or driven about upon the sea, Verg. A. 6, 68; Prop. 3, 21, 5.—

In gen., of the motion caused by other things:

magnes (lapis) agitat (ferri ramenta) per aes,

Lucr. 6, 1054:

agitari inter se concursu,

Cic. N. D. 1, 39: pulsu externo agitari, Macr Somn. Scip. 9.— Poet. of mist, to produce it by motion or agitation: dejectuque (Peneus) gravi tenues agitantia fumos Nubila conducit, and by its impetuous descent (into the valley) raises clouds producing mist, Ov. M. 1, 571—

Trop.

To rouse up, excite, move, urge, drive, impel one to something: aliquem, sometimes in aliquid (so in Florus very freq.):

in furias agitantur equae,

are excited to fury, Ov. A. A. 2, 487:

agitare plebem,

to stir up, rouse, Liv. 3, 11:

populum,

Flor. 2, 12, 2; so id. 11, 6, 2 al.:

agitatus cupiditate regni,

id. 3, 1:

gens sacratis legibus agitata in exitium urbis,

id. 1, 16, 7.—

To disquiet, disturb, to drive hither and thither, to vex, trouble, torment (the fig. taken from the sea agitated by storm; cf. Gernh. and Beier upon Cic. Off. 1, 24, 82):

dii deaeque te agitant irati,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 115:

atra bilis agitat hominem,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 64; so id. Curc. 1, 1, 92; 2, 1, 24:

ut eos agitent furiae, neque usquam consistere patiantur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 24 (cf. Verg. A. 3, 331:

scelerum furiis agitatus Orestes,

id. ib. 4, 471):

suum quemque scelus agitat amentiaque afficit,

id. ib. 24:

agitare et insequi poëtas,

Tac. Or. 4; 25 and 41:

multis injuriis jactata atque agita ta,

Cic. Quint. 2:

est magni viri, rebus agitatis (= perturbatis, Beier) punire sontes,

id. Off. 1, 24, 82:

agitabatur animus inopiā rei familiaris et conscientiā scelerum,

Sall. C. 5, 7:

quos conscientia defectionis agitabat,

Tac. Agr. 16:

commotus metu atque libidine diversus agitabatur,

was drawn in different directions, Sall. J 25, 6; Liv. 22, 12. ne te semper inops agitet vexetque cupido, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 98:

quos agitabat timor,

Tac. Agr. 16:

timore et metu agitati,

Vulg. Judith, 15, 1:

injuriis agitatus,

Flor. 1, 8, 7:

seditionibus,

Just. 12, 4, 12.—

To assail with reproach, derision, insult; to reprove, blame, scoff, deride, insult, mock:

agitat rem militarem, insectatur totam legationem,

attacks, ridicules, Cic. Mur. 9, 21; id. Brut. 28, 109: mea saevis agitat fastidia verbis, Hor Epod. 12, 13; without verbis:

agitant expertia frugis,

id. A. P. 341:

vesanum poëtam agitant pueri,

id. ib. 456.—

In gen., to drive or urge on a thing, to accomplish or do, to drive at, to be employed in, be engaged in, to have, hold, keep, to celebrate; v. ago, II. D. (in the historians, esp. Sallust, very freq.):

Haec ego non agitem?

should I not drive at? Juv. 1, 52:

vigilias,

to keep, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 27; so,

custodiam,

id. Rud. 3, 6, 20; so Tac. A. 11, 18:

hoc agitemus convivium vino et sermone suavi,

let us celebrate, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 7:

Dionysia,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 11; so id. Hec. 1, 2, 18:

convivia,

Ov. M. 7, 431; Suet. Claud. 32 festa gaudia, Sil. 15, 423:

meum natalem,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 16;

so festos dies,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 63:

jocos,

Ov. M. 3, 319:

agraria lex a Flavio tribuno plebis vehementer agitabatur,

was powerfully urged, supportcd, Cic. Att. 1, 19:

quae cum praecepta parentis mei agitarem,

was striving to comply with, Sall. J. 14, 2 (modestius dictum pro:

studere, ut agerem, Cort.): laeti pacem agitabamus,

were at peace, enjoyed the delights of peace, id. ib. 14, 10:

dicit se missum a consule venisse quaesitum ab eo, pacem an bellum agitaturus foret,

id. ib. 109, 2:

quoniam deditionis morā induciae agitabantur,

there was a truce, id. ib. 29, 4; id. C. 24, 2.— Poet.:

ceu primas agitant acies, certamina miscent,

as if they formed the front rank, Sil. 9, 330.—Hence of time, esp. life, to pass, spend (cf. ago, II. D 5.):

vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur,

Sall. C. 2, 1:

agitare aevum,

Verg. G. 4, 154; id. A. 10, 235:

festos dies,

Tac. H. 3, 78.—In Sall., Tac., Flor., et al., agitare absol., to live, dwell, abide, sojourn, be:

hi propius mare Africum agitabant,

Sall. J 18, 9; cf id. ib. 19, 5; id. Fragm. H. 3, 11; so id. J. 54, 2; 59, 1; 94, 4:

laeti Germant agitabant,

Tac. A. 1, 50:

secretus agitat,

id. ib. 11, 21:

montium editis sine cultu atque eo ferocius agitabant,

id. ib. 4, 46; Flor. 4, 12, 48.—

Of the mind: agitare aliquid or de aliquā re (in corde, in mente, animo, cum animo, secum, etc.), to drive at a thing in the mind, i. e. to turn over, revolve, to weigh, consider, meditate upon, and with the idea of action to be performed or a conclusion to be made, to deliberate upon, to devise, contrive, plot, to be occupied with, to design, intend, etc.: id ego semper mecum sic agito et comparo, Att ap. Non. 256, 20:

quom eam rem in corde agito,

Plaut. Truc 2, 5, 3:

id agitans mecum,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 10; so Sall. J. 113, 3:

habet nihil aliud quod agitet in mente,

Cic. N. D. 1, 41:

est tuum sic agitare animo, ut, etc.,

id. Fam. 6, 1:

quae omnes animo agitabant,

Tac. A. 6, 9:

provincias secretis imaginationibus agitans,

id. ib. 15, 36 in animo bellum, Liv 21, 2; Vell. 1, 16; Quint. 12, 2, 28.—With inf., as object:

ut mente agitaret bellum renovare,

Nep. Ham. 1, 4.— Poet.:

aliquid jamdudum invadere magnum Mens agitat mihi,

Verg. A 9, 187. —Sometimes also without mente, animo, and the like, agitare aliquid, in the same signif:

quodsi ille hoc unum agitare coeperit, esse, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 96:

rem a me saepe deliberatam et multum agitatam requiris,

id. Ac. 1, 2: oratori omnia quaesita, disputata, tractata, agitata ( well considered or weighed) esse debent, id. de Or. 3, 14:

fugam,

Verg. A. 2, 640.—So esp. freq. in Tac.:

Britanni agitare inter se mala servitutis, Agr 15: bellum adversus patrem agitare,

id. H. 4, 86, id. A. 1, 5; 1, 12.—With de:

de bello,

Tac. H. 2, 1:

agitanti de Claudio,

id. A. 6, 46:

de tempore ac loco caedis agitabant,

id. ib. 15, 50; 1, 12; id. H. 4, 59.—With num:

agitavere, num Messalinam depellerent amore Silli,

Tac. A. 11, 29; id. H. 1, 19.— With - ne:

agitavere placeretne, etc.,

Tac. H. 3, 1.—With an:

an Artaxata pergeret, agitavit,

Tac. A. 13, 41 —With quomodo, Tac. A. 2, 12.—With ut (of purpose):

ut Neronem pudor caperet, insita spe agitari,

Tac. A. 16, 26.—

To treat or speak of or concerning a thing, to confer about, deliberate upon. Romae per omnīs locos et conventus de facto consulis agitart ( impers., for agitabatur), discussions were had, Sall. J 30, 1;

cum de foedere victor agitaret,

Liv. 9, 5; 30, 3.—

Sat agitare, with gen., in Plaut., = sat agere, to have enough to do, to have trouble with: nunc agitas sat tute tuarum rerum, Bacch. 4, 3, 23.

agmĕn, ĭnis, n. [as if contr. from agimen, from ago; cf.: tegimen, tegmen, from tego].

Lit.

In gen., a train, i. e. a collected multitude in motion or moving forwards; of things of any kind, but esp. (so most freq. in prose) of men or animals. —Of streams of water, motion, course, current: quod per amoenam urbem lent fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4:

inde super terras fluit agmine dulci,

Lucr. 5, 272; cf. id. 6, 638; also,

in imitation of Enn., Virg. and Val. Fl.: leni fluit agmine Thybris,

Verg. A. 2, 782; cf. Val. Fl. 4, 721.—Of a train or succession of clouds:

denso sunt agmine nubes,

Lucr. 6, 100.—Of rain:

immensum caelo venit agmen aquarum,

body, mass, Verg. G. 1, 322 —Of atoms:

agmine condenso naturam corporis explent,

crowded into a compact mass, Lucr. 1, 607.—Of oars:

agmine re morum ceieri,

with quick plashing of oars, Verg. A. 5, 211.—Of a flock of birds: agmi ne magno. Corvorum. Verg. G. 1, 381.—Of a snake winding onwards:

cum medii nexus extremaeque agmina caudae Solvuntur,

Verg. G. 3, 424; cf. id. A. 2, 212.—Of clouds of dust following any thing in rapid motion, as men, animals, etc.:

agmina cervi Pulverulenta,

Verg. A. 4, 154.—And, as subst. concr., of birds turba Agminis aligeri, of the winged band, Verg A. 12, 249.—Of ants;

frugilegas aspeximus agmine longo formi cas,

Ov. M 7, 624; so id. ib. 7, 638.—Of the stars: diffugiunt stellae;

quarum agmina cogit Lucifer,

Ov. M. 2, 114; so id. ib. 11, 97 al.—Eap. of a company of persons, a multitude, troop, crowd, number, band:

ut a Brundisic nsque Romam agmen perpetuum totius Italiae viderem,

Cic. Pis. 22:

magno senatorum agmine,

Tac. H. 3, 55:

ingens mulierum agmen,

Liv. 2, 40:

muliebre et miserabile agmen,

Tac. A. 1, 40: numerosum agmen reorum, Plin Ep. 3, 9, and Tac. H. 4, 6: Eumenidum agmina, Verg A. 4, 469.—But particularly,

The train, procession, march, progress of an army:

de castris, de agminibus, etc., dicere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

ne miles gregarius in castris, neve in agmine servum aut jumentum haberet,

Sall. J. 45, 2:

pugnatum saepe directā acie, saepe in agminibus, saepe eruptionibus,

Vell. 2, 47:

effuso agmine abire,

Liv. 44, 39:

uno agmine victores cum victis in urbem irrupere,

id. 2, 30;

uno agmine persequentes,

Vulg. Judith, 15, 4 al. —

Transf., concr., an army, and properly considered as in motion, on the march (while exercitus is a disciplined army, and acies an army in battle-array) —As soon as the signal for marching was given, the Extraordinarii and the allies of the right wing, with their baggage, first put themselves in motion, then the legions, and last the allies of the left wing, with a part of the cavalry, which either rode behind the army, ad agmen claudendum or cogendum. to close the train, i. e. to keep it to gether or on the side in such an order (composito agmine, non itineri magis apto quam proelio) that it might be easily put into the line of battle, if the enemy ven tured to attack it; cf. Sall. J. 46, 6.—An army in close ranks was called agmen justum, Tac. H. 1, 68, or agmen pilatum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 121—When there was no apprehension of the enemy, less care was taken for the protection of the army:

agmine incauto, i. e. minus munito, ut inter pacatos, ducebat, sc. consul,

Liv. 35, 4.—

The order of march was, however, different, according to circumstances and the nature of the ground,

Liv. 35, 4; 27, 28; and cf. Smith's Antiq.—Sometimes the army marched in the form of a square, agmen quadratum, with their baggage in the middle, so as to be in battle-array on meeting the enemy; hence agmen quadratum often means the same as acies triplex, an army formed in line of battle, only that the former indicates that they are on the march, and the latter that they are at rest.—Hence, like acies, with the epithet primum, the vanguard, Liv. 34, 28; Tac. Agr. 35:

medium,

the centre, Liv. 10, 41; Tac. H. 4, 22:

extremum,

Liv. 34, 28; Tac. H. 2, 100;

or, novissimum,

the rear, rearguard, Liv. 44, 33; so,

extremi agminis,

Vulg. Deut. 25, 18:

ut inde agmine quadratc ad urbem accederet,

marching in a square, Cic. Phil. 13, 8:

pariter atque in conspectu hostium quadrato agmine incedere,

Sall. J 100, 1; cf. id. ib. 46, 6, 7:

Hannibal agmine quadrato amnem ingressus,

Liv. 21, 5; se id. 31, 36; 37, 39:

quadrato agmine velut in aciem irent,

Curt. 5, 1, 19 al. —Sometimes, esp. in the poets in the plur., in gen. [p. 73] sense, = exercitus or copiae, an army, host, troops:

huic tanto agmini dux defuit,

Just. 12, 10:

occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 18:

agmina curru Proterit,

Verg. A. 12, 329:

barbarorum Claudius agmina diruit,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 29; so id. S. 2, 1, 14; id. Epod. 17, 9; Ov. M. 3, 535; 5, 151, 161; 6, 423:

Del agminum Israël,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 45:

agmina ejus dispergam,

ib. Ezech. 12, 14; 38, 6.—For military service, warfare:

rudis agminum Sponsus,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 9.—

Trop.

An army, troop, band, multitude:

educenda dictio est ex hac domesticā exercitatione et umbratili medium in agmen, in pulverem, in clamorem, in castra, aciemque forensem,

i. e. before the public, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157:

e Brundisio usque Romam agmen perpetuum totius Italiae,

an unbroken train, id. Pis. 22, 51:

ingens mulierum agmen,

Liv. 2, 40; 9, 17:

agmina Eumenidum,

Verg. A. 4, 469; 6, 572:

agmina comitum,

Ov. Tr. 14, 30:

in angusto fidus comes agmine turbae,

Tib. 1, 5, 63:

numerosum agmen reorum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9:

agmen occupationum,

an army of, id. ib. 2, 8.—

March, movement:

agmina fati et volumina,

Gell. 6, 2, 5.