sidera lambit

lambo, bi, bitum ( perf. lambuerunt, Vulg. Jud. 7, 7 al.), 3, v. a. [root lap-; Gr. laptô, laphussô; Lat. labrum, labium; Germ. Löffel, spoon; Eng. lip], to lick, lap; to touch (class.; cf.: lingo, sugo, ligurio).

Lit.:

hi canes, quos tribunal meum vides lambere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 28:

lagonae collum,

Phaedr. 1, 25, 10:

lambent cibos (pisces),

Col. 8, 17, 11:

manum,

Mart. 4, 30, 4:

sanguinem,

Plin. Pan. 48, 3:

crustula,

Juv. 9, 5: jucundasque puer qui lamberat ore placentas, Lucil. ap. Prisc. 10, 3, 14:

lambent sanguinem,

to lick up, to lap, Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 9; cf. id. Judic. 7, 5 al.:

te gurgite mersum unda feret, piscesque inpastivulnera lambent,

Verg. A. 10, 560.—

Transf., of a river, to flow by, to wash, bathe:

vel quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes,

washes, Hor. C. 1, 22, 7.—Of fire, to lick, to reach, play upon:

flamma summum properabat lambere tectum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 73:

innoxia mollis Lambere flamma comas (Iuli),

Verg. A. 2, 684:

Aetna attollit globos flammarum et sidera lambit,

id. ib. 3, 574.—Of the ivy:

quorum imagines lambunt hederae sequaces,

to encircle, Pers. prol. 5:

Tedia non lambit Cluviam,

caress, fondle, Juv. 2, 49:

tribunal unius legati,

to fawn upon, court, Amm. 15, 3, 3.—In mal. part., Aus. Ep. 120, 1 et saep.

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ac-cŭmŭlo ( adc.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cumulus], to add to a heap, to heap up, accumulate, to augment by heaping up (mostly poetical).

Lit.

In gen.:

ventorum flatu congeriem arenae accumulantium,

Plin. 4, 1, 2:

confertos acervatim mors accumulabat,

Lucr. 6, 1263.— Absol., of heaping up money: auget, addit, adcumulat, * Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 59. (The syn. augere and addere are used of any object, although still small, in extent or number, after the increase; but adcumulare only when it becomes of considerable magnitude; hence the climax in the passage quoted from Cic.)—

Esp., botan. t. t., to heap up earth round the roots of plants, to trench up, Plin. 17, 19, 31, § 139; 18, 29, 71, § 295; 19, 5, 26, § 83 al.—

Trop., to heap, add, increase: virtutes generis meis moribus, Epitaph of a Scipio in Inscr. Orell. no. 554:

caedem caede,

to heap murder upon murder, Lucr. 3, 71:

aliquem donis,

to heap offerings upon one, Verg. A. 6, 886:

honorem alicui,

Ov. F. 2, 122:

curas,

id. H. 15, 70.— Absol.: quod ait (Vergilius) sidera lambit (A. 3, 574), vacanter hoc etiam accumulavit et inaniter, has piled up words, Gell. 17, 10, 16.—Hence, accŭmŭlāte, adv., abundantly, copiously (very rare):

id prolixe accumulateque fecit,

Cic. Fl. 89:

accumulate largiri,

Auct. Her. 1, 17 fin.:

prolixe accumulateque pollicetur,

App. M. 10, p. 212.

ac-cŭmŭlo ( adc.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cumulus], to add to a heap, to heap up, accumulate, to augment by heaping up (mostly poetical).

Lit.

In gen.:

ventorum flatu congeriem arenae accumulantium,

Plin. 4, 1, 2:

confertos acervatim mors accumulabat,

Lucr. 6, 1263.— Absol., of heaping up money: auget, addit, adcumulat, * Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 59. (The syn. augere and addere are used of any object, although still small, in extent or number, after the increase; but adcumulare only when it becomes of considerable magnitude; hence the climax in the passage quoted from Cic.)—

Esp., botan. t. t., to heap up earth round the roots of plants, to trench up, Plin. 17, 19, 31, § 139; 18, 29, 71, § 295; 19, 5, 26, § 83 al.—

Trop., to heap, add, increase: virtutes generis meis moribus, Epitaph of a Scipio in Inscr. Orell. no. 554:

caedem caede,

to heap murder upon murder, Lucr. 3, 71:

aliquem donis,

to heap offerings upon one, Verg. A. 6, 886:

honorem alicui,

Ov. F. 2, 122:

curas,

id. H. 15, 70.— Absol.: quod ait (Vergilius) sidera lambit (A. 3, 574), vacanter hoc etiam accumulavit et inaniter, has piled up words, Gell. 17, 10, 16.—Hence, accŭmŭlāte, adv., abundantly, copiously (very rare):

id prolixe accumulateque fecit,

Cic. Fl. 89:

accumulate largiri,

Auct. Her. 1, 17 fin.:

prolixe accumulateque pollicetur,

App. M. 10, p. 212.