to augment by heaping up

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.

cŭmŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to form into a heap, to accumulate, heap, or pile up (class.).

In gen.

Prop. (mostly post-Aug.;

esp. in Curt. and Tac.): materiem,

Lucr. 1, 989:

nubila,

id. 6, 191; 6, 518:

stipites,

Curt. 6, 6:

harenas,

id. 5, 1, 30:

nivem,

id. 5, 4, 88:

arma in ingentem acervum,

Liv. 45, 33, 1:

pyram truncis nemorumque ruinā,

Stat. Th. 6, 85.—

Trop.:

benefacta,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 64:

omnia principatūs vocabula,

Tac. H. 2, 80:

honores in eam,

id. A. 13, 2:

tantum honorum atque opum in me cumulasti,

id. ib. 14, 53;

1, 21: propemodum saeculi res in illum unum diem fortuna cumulavit,

Curt. 4, 16, 10.—

With special access. ideas (class.).

To augment by heaping up, to increase, heap, amass, accumulate.

With abl.:

funus funere,

Lucr. 6, 1237 (cf. Liv. 26, 41, 8):

aes alienum usuris,

id. 2, 23, 6:

haec aliis nefariis cumulant atque adaugent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 30; cf.:

alio scelere hoc scelus,

id. Cat. 1, 6, 14:

bellicam gloriam eloquentiā,

id. Off. 1, 32, 116.—

Without abl.:

invidiam,

Liv. 3, 12, 8:

injurias,

id. 3, 37, 3:

vitia,

Tac. Or. 28:

accesserunt quae cumularent religiones animis,

Liv. 42, 20, 5.—

To make full by heaping up, to fill full, fill, overload, etc.

Lit.

With abl.:

locum strage semiruti muri,

Liv. 32, 17, 10:

fossas corporibus,

Tac. H. 4, 20:

viscera Thyesteis mensis,

Ov. M. 15, 462:

cumulatae flore ministrae,

id. F. 4, 451:

altaria donis,

Verg. A. 11, 50; cf.:

aras honore, donis,

Liv. 8, 33, 21; Curt. 5, 1, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 204.—

Without abl.:

altos lacus fervida musta,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 72; cf.:

cumulata ligula salis cocti,

a full spoon, spoonful, Col. 2, 21, 2.—

Trop.

With abl.:

non possum non confiteri cumulari me maximo gaudio, quod, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 1; cf.:

ponebas cumulatum aliquem plurimis voluptatibus,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 63: nunc meum cor cumulatur irā, Caecil. ap. Cic. Cael. 16, 37:

duplici dedecore cumulata domus,

Cic. Att. 12, 5, 1; cf.:

orator omni laude cumulatus,

id. de Or. 1, 26, 118:

tot honoribus cumulatus,

Tac. H. 3, 37:

hoc vitio cumulata est Graecorum natio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 18:

neque tot adversis cumulant,

overwhelm, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 55.—

With ex: (summum bonum) cumulatur ex integritate corporis et ex mentis ratione perfecta, is made complete, perfect, = completus, absolvitur, Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 40. —

Absol.:

ad cumulandum gaudium (meum) conspectum mihi tuum defuisse,

in order to make my joy full, complete, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 2; cf. under P. a., B. a.—Hence, cŭmŭlātus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to II. A.) Increased, augmented:

eādem mensurā reddere quā acceperis aut etiam cumulatiore,

Cic. Brut. 4, 15:

gloria cumulatior,

Liv. 2, 47, 11; cf. id. 4, 60, 2.—

(Acc. to II. B.) Filled full, full, complete, perfect.

Absol.:

tantum accessit ad amorem, ut mirarer locum fuisse augendi in eo, quod mihi jam pridem cumulatum etiam videbatur,

Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 5:

hoc sentire et facere perfectae cumulataeque virtutis (est),

id. Sest. 40, 86.— Poet.:

veniam... cumulatam morte remittam, i. e. cumulate referam,

shall abundantly reward, Verg. A. 4, 436.—

With gen.: ineptitudinis cumulatus, Caecil. ap. Non. p. 128, 15:

scelerum cumulatissime,

Plaut. Aul. 5, 16.— Adv.: cŭmŭ-lātē, in rich abundance, abundantly, copiously (freq. in Cic.;

elsewh. very rare),

Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 42; id. Div. 2, 1, 3; id. Att. 6, 3, 3 al.— Comp., Cic. Or. 17, 54.— Sup., Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 1; 10, 29 init.