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  • 1 tumulus

        tumulus ī, m    [1 TV-], a heap of earth, mound, hill, hillock: terrenus, Cs.: ignis e speculā sublatus aut tumulo: silvestres: tumuli ex aggere, V. — A sepulchral mound, barrow, grave, tumulus: tumulus, qui corpus eius contexerat: statuent tumulum, V.: Corpora dant tumulo, O.: inanis, a cenotaph, V.
    * * *
    mound, hillock; mound, tomb

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  • 2 agger

        agger eris, m    [ad + GES-], a mass, heap, collection, pile: aggere paludem explere, Cs.: longius erat agger petendus, Cs.: fossas aggere conplent, V.—A heap of rubbish, pile of stones, bank, mound, dam, pier, hillock, wall, dike, mole, rampart: aggeribus niveis informis terra, with snow-drifts, V.: proelia miscent Aggeribus murorum, V.: molirique aggere tecta, a stockade, V.: aggeribus ruptis amnis exit, dams, V.: muniti aggere portūs, a breakwater, O.: viae agger, a causeway, V.—Poet.: aggeres Alpini, i. e. mountains, V.— A funeral pile, O. — A platform (for a speaker), O. — In war, a mound erected before a besieged city to sustain battering engines: vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere iacto, Cs.: aggerem iacere, S.: promovere ad urbem, to bring near to the city, L.; usu. of wood; hence, ut agger, tormenta flammam conciperent, Cs.: aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit, L. — Fig.: esset agger oppugnandae Italiae, a rampart for attacking. — Freq. of mounds or terraces in Rome, built for defence, and afterwards used as promenades, a boulevard, terrace: maximus (Tarquinii): (Servius) aggere circumdat urbem, L.: Aggere in aprico spatiari, H.— A mound to protect a camp: seges aggere cingit, V.
    * * *
    rampart (or material for); causeway, pier; heap, pile, mound; dam; mud wall

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  • 3 collis

        collis is, m    [2 CEL-], an elevation, high ground, hill: iugum collis, Cs.: aequaliter declivis, Cs.: leniter adclivis, Cs.: altus, O.: celsus, V.: septem colles, i. e. Rome, H.: summa collium insederant, Ta.
    * * *
    hill, hillock, eminence, hill-top; mound; high ground; mountains (pl.) (poetic)

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  • 4 colliculus

    hillock, small hill

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  • 5 conliculus

    hillock, small hill

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  • 6 agger

    agger, ĕris, m. [ad-gero].
    I.
    Things brought to a place in order to form an elevation above a surface or plain, as rubbish, stone, earth, sand, brushwood, materials for a rampart, etc. (in the histt., esp. Cæs., freq.; sometimes in the poets): ab opere revocandi milites, qui paulo longius aggeris petendi causā processerant, Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

    aggere paludem explere,

    id. ib. 7, 58; cf. id. ib. 7, 86:

    longius erat agger petendus,

    id. B. C. 1, 42; 2, 15 al.:

    superjecto aggere terreno,

    Suet. Calig. 19; cf. id. ib. 37:

    implere cavernas aggere,

    Curt. 8, 10, 27:

    fossas aggere complent,

    Verg. A. 9, 567: avis e medio aggere exit, from the midst of the pile of wood, Ov. M. 12, 524.— But far oftener,
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    The pile formed by masses of rubbish, stone, earth, brushwood, etc., collected together; acc. to its destination, a dam, dike, mole, pier; a hillock, mound, wall, bulwark, rampart, etc.; esp. freq. in the histt. of artificial elevations for military purposes: tertium militare sepimentum est fossa et terreus agger, a clay or mud wall, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2: aggeribus niveis ( with snow-drifts) informis Terra, Verg. G. 3, 354:

    atque ipsis proelia miscent Aggeribus murorum, pleon. for muris,

    id. A. 10, 24; cf. id. ib. 10, 144:

    ut cocto tolleret aggere opus, of the walls of Babylon,

    Prop. 4, 10, 22.— A dike of earth for the protection of a harbor (Ital. molo), Vitr. 5, 12, 122; Ov. M. 14, 445; 15, 690.— A causeway through a swamp:

    aggeres umido paludum et fallacibus campis imponere,

    Tac. A. 1, 61.— A heap or pile of arms:

    agger armorum,

    Tac. H. 2, 70.— Poet., for mountains:

    aggeres Alpini,

    Verg. A. 6, 830; so,

    Thessalici aggeres,

    i. e. Pelion, Ossa, Olympus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 168.— A funeral pile of wood, Ov. M. 9, 234, and Sen. Herc. Fur. 1216.— A heap of ashes:

    ab alto aggere,

    Luc. 5, 524 Weber.— A high wave of the sea:

    ab alto Aggere dejecit pelagi,

    Luc. 5, 674:

    consurgit ingens pontus in vastum aggerem,

    Sen. Hippol. 1015 (cf.:

    mons aquae,

    Verg. A. 1, 105).—
    B.
    In milit. lang.
    1.
    A mound erected before the walls of a besieged city, for the purpose of sustaining the battering engines, and which was gradually advanced to the town; cf. Smith's Dict. Antiq., and Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

    aggere, vineis, turribus oppidum oppugnare,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 4; id. Att. 5, 20:

    esset agger oppugnandae Italiae Graecia,

    id. Phil. 10, 9:

    celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere jacto turribusque constitutis, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

    jacere,

    to throw up, Sall. J. 37, 4; so Vulg. Isa. 29, 3:

    aggerem exstruere,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 30:

    instruere,

    id. ib. 8, 41:

    promovere ad urbem,

    to bring near to the city, Liv. 5, 7.— Hence, poet.: stellatis axibus agger Erigitur, geminasque aequantis moenia turres Accipit, a mound is built provided with wheels (for moving it forwards), Luc. 3, 455; imitated by Sil. 13, 109.—Since such aggeres consisted principally of wood, they could be easily set on fire, Caes. B. C. 2, 14: horae momento simul aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit, Liv 5, 7.— Trop.:

    Graecia esset vel receptaculum pulso Antonio, vel agger oppugnandae Italiae,

    rampart, mound, Cic. Phil. 10, 4: Agger Tarquini, the mound raised by Tarquinius Superbus for the defence of the eastern part of the city of Rome, in the neighborhood of the present Porta S. Lorenzo, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 67; cf. id. 36, 15, 24, n. 2, * Hor. S. 1, 8, 15; Juv. 5, 153; so id. 8, 43; Quint. 12, 10, 74.—Suet. uses agger for the Tarpeian rock: quoad praecipitaretur ex aggere, Calig. 27.—
    2.
    The mound raised for the protection of a camp before the trench (fossa), and from earth dug from it, which was secured by a stockade (vallum), consisting of sharpened stakes (valli); cf.

    Hab. Syn. 68, and Smith's Dict. Antiq.: in litore sedes, Castrorum in morem pinnis atque aggere cingit,

    Verg. A. 7, 159; Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47.—
    3.
    The tribunal, in a camp, formed of turf, from which the general addressed his soldiers:

    stetit aggere saltus Cespitis, intrepidus vultum meruitque timeri,

    Luc. 5, 317:

    vix eā turre senex, cum ductor ab aggere coepit,

    Stat. Th. 7, 374; cf. Tac. A. 1, 18 Lips.—
    4.
    A military or public road, commonly graded by embankments of earth (in the class. per. only in Verg. and Tac., and always in connection with viae, agger alone belonging only to later Lat.):

    viae deprensus in aggere serpens,

    Verg. A. 5, 273:

    Aurelius agger, i. e. via Aurelia,

    Rutil. Itiner. 39:

    aggerem viae tres praetoriae cohortes obtinuere,

    Tac. H. 2, 24 and 42; 3, 21 and 23.

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  • 7 grumulus

    grūmŭlus, i, m. dim. [grumus], a little hill, hillock (post-Aug.), Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 112; App. M. 6; Ambros. de Elia, 6, 18.

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  • 8 grumus

    grūmus, i, m., a little heap, hillock of earth: grumus terrae collectio minor tumulo, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.; Att. ap. Non. 15, 24; Col. 2, 17, 4; Vitr. 2, 1; 8, 3; Auct. B. Hisp. 24.

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  • 9 tumor

    tŭmor, ōris, m. [id.], the state of being swollen or tumid; a swelling, tumor (class.; syn. tuber).
    I.
    Lit.:

    oculorum tumor,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 81; so of a tumor, id. ib. 3, 9, 19; Auct. Her. 2, 27, 44.—In plur.:

    tumores ardentes,

    Plin. 20, 25, 96, § 257:

    tollere,

    id. 21, 21, 89, § 157:

    discutere,

    id. 24, 4, 6, § 11: vetat Chrysippus ad recentes quasi tumores animi remedium adhibere. Cic. Tusc. 4, 29, 63: turpia cum faceret Palladis ora tumor, inflation of the cheeks from blowing the tibia, Prop. 2, 30 (3, 28), 18:

    tumor excitat papillas,

    a swelling, Mart. 8, 64, 10:

    pelagi,

    i. e. the surge, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 72: tumor ille loci permansit, et alti Collis habet speciem, a rising, elevation, hillock, etc., Ov. M. 15, 305; cf.: tumores terrae. Front. Colon. pp. 126 and 127 Goes.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    A swelling, commotion, fermentation, excitement of the mind from any passion, as pride, anger, etc. (cf. tumeo and tumidus, II.).
    1.
    From anger:

    cum tumor animi resedisset,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26:

    erat in tumore animus,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 76:

    ira habet non solidum robur, sed vanum tumorem,

    Sen. Ira. 1, 17, 4:

    datum tempus, quo resideret tumor publicus,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 5:

    tumor et irae Concessere deum,

    Verg. A. 8, 40:

    ponatur omnis ira et ex animo tumor erasus abeat,

    Sen. Thyest. 519: residente [p. 1913] animi tumore, Lact. de Ira Dei, 18 med. —
    2.
    From pride, vanity, etc.:

    hinc illi aucta insolentia mirusque animo increvit tumor,

    Just. 11, 11, 12; Sen. Hippol. 136; Claud. Ep. 1, 6; Luc. 10, 99:

    tumor et vana de se persuasio,

    Quint. 2, 2, 12:

    regius,

    Sen. Hippol. 136:

    multos tumores mente gerit,

    Luc. 10, 99; Claud. Ep. 1, 7.—
    3.
    From other passions:

    et inquietus inguina arrigat tumor,

    i. e. desire, Auct. Priap. 83, 42.—
    B.
    A ferment, commotion in affairs or society, Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2:

    praesens et civilia nuper classica,

    Claud. in Ruf. 2, 117.—
    C.
    Of speech, an inflated or pompous style, bombast (post-Aug.):

    genus dicendi, quod tumore immodico turgescit,

    Quint. 12, 10, 73; 2, 10, 7; 9, 4, 140;

    12, 6, 5: verborum,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 11, 5; Petr. 1; Gell. 2, 23, 21.

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  • 10 tumulus

    tŭmŭlus, i, m. (late Lat. in the neutr.: HOC TVMVLVM, Inscr. Rein. cl. 20, 197) [tumeo; cf. also tumor and tumidus], a raised heap of earth, a mound, hill, hillock (freq. and class.; cf.: agger, moles).
    I.
    In gen.:

    terrenus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43:

    ignis e speculā sublatus aut tumulo,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 93:

    coacervatis cadaveribus, qui superessent ut ex tumulo tela in nostros conicerent,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 27:

    quaeris, utrum magis tumulis prospectuque an ambulatione delecter,

    Cic. Att. 14, 13, 1:

    cum tumulos Albano in monte nivalis Lustrasti, id. Div. poët. 1, 11, 18: vos enim, Albani tumuli atque luci,

    id. Mil. 31, 85:

    silvestres,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24: pecuda in tumulis deserunt, Att. ap. Non. p. 159, 10:

    tumuli ex aggere,

    Verg. A. 5, 44: tumulus naturalis, Auct. B. Alex. 72, 1.—
    II.
    In partic., a sepulchral mound, barrow, tumulus (cf. sepulcrum):

    (Demetrius) super terrae tumulum noluit quid statui nisi columellam, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66:

    (Alexander) cum in Sigaeo ad Achillis tumulum astitisset,

    id. Arch. 10, 24; id. poët. Tusc. 3, 27, 65; Quint. 7, 3, 31:

    tumulum facere,

    Verg. E. 5, 42:

    hostilem ad tumulum,

    id. A. 3, 322:

    statuent tumulum,

    id. ib. 6, 380:

    tumulo dare corpora,

    Ov. M. 2, 326; 4, 157; id. F. 3, 547; id. Tr. 3, 3, 72:

    tumulum Varianis legionibus structum,

    Tac. A. 2, 7:

    reliquiae tumulo Augusti inferebantur,

    id. ib. 3, 3:

    honorarius,

    i. e. a sepulchral monument, cenotaph, Suet. Claud. 1;

    called also inanis,

    Verg. A. 6, 505.

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