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  • 1 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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  • 2 focus

        focus ī, m    [1 FAC-], a fire-place, hearth: ligna super foco reponens, H.: ad focum sedens: exstruere lignis focum, pile on wood, H.: cinerem et confusa ruebant Ossa focis, the funeral-pile, V.: Dis tribus focos ponit, altars, O.: Crateresque focosque ferunt, i. e. fire-pans, V.: vivi foci, fires, Pr. — A hearth, home, family: domi focique ut memineris, T.: patrii: agellus, habitatus quinque focis, families, H.
    * * *
    hearth, fireplace; altar; home, household, family; cook stove (Cal)

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  • 3 focus

    fŏcus, i, m. [root bha-, to be bright, Gr. pha- (cf. for, fari), strengthened, fac-, fax, facies, etc., Corss. Ausspr. 1, 423, who refers even facio to this root].
    I.
    A fire-place, hearth (syn.: clibanus, furnus, fornax, caminus): Varro focos ait dictos, quod foveat ignes, nam ignis ipsa flamma est: quicquid autem ignem fovet, focus vocatur, seu ara sit seu quid aliud, in quo ignis fovetur, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 20, 10, 1:

    at focus a flammis, et quod fovet omnia, dictus,

    Ov. F. 6, 301; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.; Serv. Verg. A. 12, 118; Plaut. Aul. prol. 7; Plin. 19, 1, 4, § 19:

    dum meus assiduo luceat igne focus,

    Tib. 1, 1, 6:

    jam dudum splendet focus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 7:

    ligna super foco Large reponens,

    id. C. 1, 9, 5:

    Curio ad focum sedenti magnum auri pondus Samnites, cum attulissent,

    Cic. de Sen. 16, 55; cf. id. Fragm. ap. Non. 522, 28 (Rep. 3, 28 ed. Mos.);

    68, 17: ad focum angues nundinari solent,

    Cic. Div. 2, 31, 66:

    exstruere lignis focum,

    to pile on wood, Hor. Epod. 2, 43.— Poet. of a funeral-pile, Verg. A. 11, 212; of an altar, Prop. 2, 19 (3, 12), 14; 4, 5, 64 (5, 5, 66 M.); Tib. 1, 2, 82; Ov. M. 4, 753 al.—On the hearths of Roman houses were placed, in little niches, the household gods (Lares), and for them a fire was kept up:

    haec imponentur in foco nostro Lari,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 16; cf.:

    focus Larium, quo familia convenit,

    Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 267.—Hence,
    B.
    Transf.: focus, like our hearth, serves to denote the house or family:

    domi focique fac vicissim ut memineris,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 45; cf.:

    nudum ejicit domo atque focis patriis disque penatibus praecipitem Sextum exturbat,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:

    agellus, quem tu fastidis, habitatum quinque focis,

    by five houses, families, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 2.—Esp. freq.: arae et foci, pro aris et focis pugnare, to signify one's dearest possessions; v. ara. —
    II.
    A fire-pan, coal-pan, brazier:

    panem in foco caldo sub testu coquito leniter,

    Cato, R. R. 75; 76, 2; Sen. Ep. 78 fin.

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  • 4 congeria

    congĕrĭes, ēi ( congĕrĭa, ae, Front. Colon. p. 11, 119 and 125 Goes.; Innoc. Cas. Litt. p. 224 ib.), f. [congero], that which is brought together; hence, a heap, pile, mass (not ante-Aug.; while the syn. acervus is prevalent through all periods).
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    lapidum,

    Liv. 31, 39, 8:

    summa silvae,

    Ov. M. 9, 235; cf.

    struis,

    Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 53; and:

    ramorum et fruticum,

    id. 8, 36, 54, § 127:

    cadaverum,

    Val. Fl. 6, 511; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 318:

    densa grani,

    id. 13, 15, 30, § 97:

    armorum,

    Tac. A. 2, 22:

    vasta metalli,

    Claud. in Rufin. 2, 135:

    alta sordium,

    Gell. 2, 6 fin.:

    pulveris exigui,

    Luc. 8, 866 sq. —
    (β).
    Absol.:

    dispositam Congeriem secuit,

    i. e. chaos, Ov. M. 1, 33; cf. Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 10.—So of a heap of wood, wood-pile, funeral-pile, Ov. M. 14, 576; Quint. 5, 13, 13; Claud. Idyll. 1, 93.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen.:

    venit aetas omnis in unam congeriem,

    Luc. 5, 178:

    sincera bonorum,

    Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 136. —
    B.
    In rhet., a figure of speech, accumulation; Gr. sunathroismos, Quint. 8, 4, 3; 8, 4, 26 sq.

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  • 5 congeries

    congĕrĭes, ēi ( congĕrĭa, ae, Front. Colon. p. 11, 119 and 125 Goes.; Innoc. Cas. Litt. p. 224 ib.), f. [congero], that which is brought together; hence, a heap, pile, mass (not ante-Aug.; while the syn. acervus is prevalent through all periods).
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    lapidum,

    Liv. 31, 39, 8:

    summa silvae,

    Ov. M. 9, 235; cf.

    struis,

    Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 53; and:

    ramorum et fruticum,

    id. 8, 36, 54, § 127:

    cadaverum,

    Val. Fl. 6, 511; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 318:

    densa grani,

    id. 13, 15, 30, § 97:

    armorum,

    Tac. A. 2, 22:

    vasta metalli,

    Claud. in Rufin. 2, 135:

    alta sordium,

    Gell. 2, 6 fin.:

    pulveris exigui,

    Luc. 8, 866 sq. —
    (β).
    Absol.:

    dispositam Congeriem secuit,

    i. e. chaos, Ov. M. 1, 33; cf. Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 10.—So of a heap of wood, wood-pile, funeral-pile, Ov. M. 14, 576; Quint. 5, 13, 13; Claud. Idyll. 1, 93.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen.:

    venit aetas omnis in unam congeriem,

    Luc. 5, 178:

    sincera bonorum,

    Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 136. —
    B.
    In rhet., a figure of speech, accumulation; Gr. sunathroismos, Quint. 8, 4, 3; 8, 4, 26 sq.

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  • 6 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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  • 7 strues

    strŭes, is, f. [id.], a heap, pile of things put together.
    I.
    In gen. (class.;

    syn.: acervus, cumulus, congeries): laterum,

    Cic. Att. 5, 12, 3:

    corporum,

    Liv. 23, 5; Tac. H. 2, 70; 3, 83:

    lignorum,

    Liv. 21, 37; Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 53:

    arma cum telis in strue mixta,

    Ov. P. 2, 1, 40:

    rogi,

    a funeral pile, pyre, Tac. G. 27; Luc. 8, 757; Sen. Phoen. 112; id. Oedip. 33:

    uvarum,

    Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 51 et saep.:

    (milites Macedones) confusa strue implicantur,

    a heap, mass, phalanx, Liv. 44, 41, 7.—Collect., with a verb in the plur.: LOCVS QVO EA STRVES CONGERANTVR, i. e. piles of wood, Cenot. Pis. I. (in Inscr. Orell. 642).—
    II.
    In partic., in relig. lang., a heap of little offering-cakes:

    strues genera liborum sunt, digitorum conjunctorum non dissimilia, qui superjecta panicula in transversum continentur,

    Fest. p. 310 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. ferctum, p. 85; cf. Cato, R. R. 134, 2; 141, 4; Ov. F. 1, 276; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. p. 403.

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  • 8 pālus

        pālus ī, m    [PAC-], a stake, prop, stay, pale: ad palum adligantur: palo suspendat aratrum, O. — A stake, wooden post (for young soldiers to practise on with weapons): aut quis non vidit volnera pali? Iu.
    * * *
    I
    stake/pile/pole/unsplit wood; peg/pin; execution stake; wood sword; fence (pl.)
    II
    swamp, marsh

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  • 9 palūs

        palūs (once palus, H.), ūdis, gen plur. palūdum, rarely palūdium, L., f    a swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool: planities hiemantibus aquis paludem fecerat, S.: paludes siccare: propter paludes exercitui aditus non esset, Cs.: sterilis, H.: Stygiae paludes, O.: propinquitas fluminum ac paludium, L.: (cymba) multam accepit rimosa paludem, water, V.
    * * *
    I
    stake/pile/pole/unsplit wood; peg/pin; execution stake; wood sword; fence (pl.)
    II
    swamp, marsh

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  • 10 palum

    stake/pile/pole/unsplit wood; peg/pin; execution stake; wood sword; fence (pl.)

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