hastae+modum+nep

dū̆plĭco, āvi, ātum, 1 (u long, Verg. E. 2, 67), v. a. [duplex], to double (class.)

Lit.:

numerum dierum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 22; so,

numerum,

id. Rep. 2, 20 (twice); Caes. B. G. 4, 36, 2; Tac. H. 2, 30:

modum hastae,

Nep. Iphicr. 1 fin.:

exercitum,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.

copias,

Liv. 7, 7:

fructum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 69, 1; cf.:

reditum pretio,

Col. 12, 52, 2:

rem,

Pers. 6, 78:

stipendium legionibus in perpetuum,

Suet. Caes. 26:

tributa,

id. Vesp. 16:

verba,

i. e. to repeat, Cic. Or. 39, 135 (with iterare); id. Part. 6, 20 sq.; also, to form a bipartite word, to compound (e. g. androgynus):

faciliore ad duplicanda verba Graeco sermone,

Liv. 27, 11.—

Transf.

(Acc. to duplex, I. B. 3.), to double, i. e. to enlarge, augment, increase:

mobilitas duplicatur,

Lucr. 6, 337:

duplicato ejus diei itinere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 76 fin.; cf.

cursu,

id. ib. 3, 92, 2:

et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras,

Verg. E. 2, 67; cf. Ov. M. 11, 550:

duplicata nimbo flumina,

id. Am. 1, 9, 11:

ut in dies magis magisque haec nascens de me duplicetur opinio,

Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2: curam, Sall. Or. Cottae, p. 245 ed. Gerl.; cf. sollicitudines, Lucei. in Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2: bellum, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 2, 67.—

In poets and in post-Aug. prose meton. (effectu pro causa), to double up, to bow, bend a person or thing: nos duplicat timos, Naev. ap. Non. p. 487 (Trag. v. 45 Rib.):

duplicato poplite,

Verg. A. 12, 927:

corpus frigore,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 1 ext.:

virum dolore,

Verg. A. 11, 645; Ov. M. 6, 293; Stat. Th. 3, 89; 6, 859.—

To double by dividing, to split in two, tear apart, tear (late Lat.):

capillum,

Cels. 7, 7, 8:

vesicam,

id. 7, 26, 2 fin. al.—Hence, * dū̆plĭcāto, adv., twice as much:

degredi,

Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 76.