to heap up like an

aggĕro ( adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [agger].

Lit., to form an agger, or to heap up like an agger; hence, in gen., to heap up, pile up (cf. cumulare; only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

aggerat cadavera,

Verg. G. 3, 556:

Laurentis praemia pugnae aggerat,

id. A. 11, 79:

ossa disjecta vel aggerata,

Tac. A. 1, 61; 1, 63.—

Transf.

To heap up, i. e. to augment, increase:

incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras,

Verg. A. 4, 197, and 11, 342:

omne promissum,

Stat. Th. 2, 198.—

To fill, fill up:

spatium,

Curt. 4, 2.—

Aggerare arborem, in gardening, to heap up earth around a tree in order to protect the roots, Col. 11, 2, 46.

ag-gĕro ( adg-), gessi, gestum, 3, v. a.

To bear, carry, convey, bring to or toward a place; with ad or dat. (in Plaut. freq.; in the class. per. rare; in Cic. perh. only once;

more freq. in Tac.): quom eorum aggerimus bona, quin etiam ultro ipsi aggerunt ad nos,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 16:

mihi his aggerunda etiam est aqua,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 27; so id. Cas. 1, 1, 36; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 6: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. ap. Non. 212, 16:

ingens Aggeritur tumulo tellus,

Verg. A. 3, 63:

quadrantes patrimonio,

Phaedr. 4, 19 (20):

aggesta fluminibus terra,

Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 28:

aggerebatur caespes,

Tac. A. 1, 19.— Trop., to bring forwards, lay to one's charge:

probra,

Tac. A. 13, 14:

falsa,

id. ib. 2, 57.—

To stick together soft masses:

haec genera (laterum ex terrā cretosā factorum) non sunt ponderosa et faciliter adgeruntur,

Vitr. 2, 3, 35.

aggĕro ( adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [agger].

Lit., to form an agger, or to heap up like an agger; hence, in gen., to heap up, pile up (cf. cumulare; only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

aggerat cadavera,

Verg. G. 3, 556:

Laurentis praemia pugnae aggerat,

id. A. 11, 79:

ossa disjecta vel aggerata,

Tac. A. 1, 61; 1, 63.—

Transf.

To heap up, i. e. to augment, increase:

incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras,

Verg. A. 4, 197, and 11, 342:

omne promissum,

Stat. Th. 2, 198.—

To fill, fill up:

spatium,

Curt. 4, 2.—

Aggerare arborem, in gardening, to heap up earth around a tree in order to protect the roots, Col. 11, 2, 46.

ag-gĕro ( adg-), gessi, gestum, 3, v. a.

To bear, carry, convey, bring to or toward a place; with ad or dat. (in Plaut. freq.; in the class. per. rare; in Cic. perh. only once;

more freq. in Tac.): quom eorum aggerimus bona, quin etiam ultro ipsi aggerunt ad nos,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 16:

mihi his aggerunda etiam est aqua,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 27; so id. Cas. 1, 1, 36; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 6: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. ap. Non. 212, 16:

ingens Aggeritur tumulo tellus,

Verg. A. 3, 63:

quadrantes patrimonio,

Phaedr. 4, 19 (20):

aggesta fluminibus terra,

Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 28:

aggerebatur caespes,

Tac. A. 1, 19.— Trop., to bring forwards, lay to one's charge:

probra,

Tac. A. 13, 14:

falsa,

id. ib. 2, 57.—

To stick together soft masses:

haec genera (laterum ex terrā cretosā factorum) non sunt ponderosa et faciliter adgeruntur,

Vitr. 2, 3, 35.

con-tŭmŭlo, āre, v. a.

To heap up like a mound:

ovis stragulum molle pulvere,

Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 100.—

To furnish with a mound, to inter, bury:

saucium ingestā humo,

Ov. Ib. 460; cf. id. Tr. 3, 3, 33; Mart. 8, 57, 4.

con-strŭo, struxi, structum, 3 ( part. fut. constrŭĭtūra, Ven. Carm. 2, 10 fin.), v. a.

To heap, bring, or gather together, to heap or pile up (class.):

acervos nummorum apud aliquem,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; cf.:

omnibus rebus et modis constructā et coacervatā pecuniā,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 14;

and acervum,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 44:

divitias,

id. ib. 2, 3, 96: carros, to make a barricade, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 195, 29:

has omnes multas magnificasque res,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161; cf.:

copiam ornamentorum uno in loco,

id. ib. §

162: super prela congeriem,

Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 318.—

(Like compono, II.) To make by piling up, to make, fabricate, construct, build (class.; most freq. in Cic.).

In gen.:

construere atque aedificare mundum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 19:

ut navem, ut aedificium idem destruit facillime qui construxit,

id. Sen. 20, 72; cf.

delubra,

id. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

arces,

Sil. 8, 145:

sepulcrum saxo quadrato,

Liv. 1, 26, 14; cf.:

horrea saxeo muro constructa,

Suet. Ner. 38; and:

pilam saxeam magnis molibus,

Verg. A. 9, 712:

cubilia sibi nidosque (aves),

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf.

nidos,

id. de Or. 2, 6, 23; and:

nidum sibi,

Ov. M. 15, 397:

dentibus in ore constructis manditur cibus,

arranged, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, furnished, * Cat. 64, 304.—

Esp., in gram. lang., to connect grammatically, construct, Prisc. p. 1099 sq. P. et saep.

augĕo, auxi, auctum, 2, v. a. and n. ( perf subj. auxitis = auxeritis, Liv. 29, 27: auceta: saepe aucta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.) [Gr. auxô auxanô; Lith. augu, and augmu = growth; Sanscr. vaksh; Goth. vahsjan, and auka = growth; Germ. wachsen; Engl. wax; also allied to vegeo vegetus, vigeo vigor, vigil [p. 204] v. Curt. pp. 67, 186 sq., and Bopp, Gloss. p. 304 b].

Act., to increase, to nourish (orig., to produce, bring forth that not already in existence; in which signification only the derivative auctor is now found).

1.. To increase, enlarge, augment, strengthen, advance that which is already in existence (class. in prose and poetry; syn.: adaugeo, amplio, amplifico): Quicquid est hoc, omnia animat, format, alit, auget, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131:

cibus auget corpus alitque,

Lucr. 1, 859:

redductum (animale genus) daedala tellus alit atque auget generatim pabula praebens,

id. 1, 229; 5, 220; 5, 322;

6, 946: virīs,

id. 6, 342:

in augendā re,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2; 14; so,

in augendā obruitur re,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 68:

rem strenuus auge,

increase your gains, id. ib. 1, 7, 71:

opes,

Nep. Thras. 2, 4:

possessiones,

id. Att. 12, 2:

divitias,

Vulg. Prov 22, 16:

dotem et munera,

ib. Gen. 34, 12:

rem publicam agris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18; so Tac. H 1, 79:

aerarium,

id. A. 3, 25:

vallum et turres,

id. H. 4, 35:

classem,

Suet. Ner. 3:

tributa,

id. Vesp. 16:

pretium,

Vulg. Ezech. 16, 31:

numerum,

Suet. Aug. 37, and Vulg. Deut. 20, 19 al.:

morbum,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 54:

suspitionem,

id. Eun. 3, 1, 46; Suet. Tit. 5:

industriam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 25:

molestiam,

Cic. Fl. 12:

dolorem alicui,

id. Att. 11, 22 vitium ventris, id. Cael. 19:

peccatum,

Vulg. Exod. 9, 34:

furorem,

ib. Num. 32, 14:

benevolentiam,

Cic. Lael. 9, 30: animum alicujus, to increase one ' s courage, id. Att. 10, 14; so,

animos,

Stat. Th. 10, 23:

vocem,

to strengthen, raise, Suet. Claud. 33; id. Ner. 20' hostias, to increase, multiply, id. Aug. 96:

ego te augebo et multiplicabo,

Vulg. Gen. 48, 4 al. — Poet.:

nuper et istae Auxerunt volucrum victae certamine turbam,

i. e. have been changed into birds, Ov. M. 5, 301.—

Trop., to magnify, to exalt, to extol, embellish, to praise (syn.:

laudo, laude afficere, verbis extollere, orno): homo tenuis non verbis auget suum munus, sed etiam extenuat,

Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70:

aliquid augere atque ornare,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94; so,

rem laudando,

id. Brut. 12, 47:

munus principis,

Plin. Pan. 38 al. —

Aliquem (aliquid) aliquā re, to furaish abundantly with something, to heap upon, give to, to enrich, endow, bless, load with: lunae pars ignibus aucta, the part that is entirely filled with fire, Lucr 5, 722: 3. 630: Tantā laetitiā auctus sum, ut nil constet, poët, ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 14 oaque vos omnia bene juvetis, bonis auctibus auxitis, old form of prayer in Liv. 29, 27:

alter te scientia augere potest, altera exemplis,

the one can enrich you with learning, the other furnish you with examples, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 1:

aliquid divitiis,

id. Agr. 2, 26, 69:

commodis,

id. Phil. 11, 14 fin.:

senectus augeri solet consilio, auctoritate, sententiā,

id. Sen. 6, 17:

gratulatione,

id. Phil. 14, 6:

honore,

id. ib. 9, 6:

honoribus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 11; so Tac. A. 6, 8:

honoribus praemiisque,

Suet. Caes. 52; id. Vit. 5: augeri damno, to be enriched with a loss (said comically), Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 15:

liberalitate,

Tac. A. 3, 8:

largitione,

id. ib. 13, 18:

nomine imperatorio,

id. ib. 1, 3:

cognomento Augustae,

id. ib. 12, 26 et saep.—Also without abl.:

Di me equidem omnes adjuvant, augent, amant,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 27, and id. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

aliquem augere atque ornare,

to advance, Cic. Fam. 7, 17:

aut augendi alterius aut minuendi sui causā aliquid dicere,

id. Part. Or. 6, 22 solum te commendat augetque temporis spatium, honors, Plin. Pan. 24; so id. ib. 26; Suet. Claud. 12.—

In the lang. of religion, t. t. (like mactare, adolere, etc.), to honor, reverence, worship by offerings:

Aliquid cedo, Qui vicini hanc nostram augeam aram [Apoliinis],

Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 10:

si quā ipse meis venatibus auxi, etc.,

Verg. A. 9, 407.—

Neutr., to grow, increase, become greater (rare; syn.: augesco, cresco, incresco; on this use of vbs. com. act., v. Ellis ad Cat. 22, 11): eo res eorum auxit, Cato ap. Gell. 18, 12, 7:

usque adeo parcunt fetus augentque labore,

Lucr. 2, 1163:

ignoscendo populi Romani magnitudinem auxisse,

Sall. H. 1 (Fragm. Orat. Philipp. contra Lepid. §

6): O decus eximium magnis virtutibus augens,

Cat. 64, 323:

balnea Romae ad infinitum auxere numerum,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 122; 2, 16, 13, § 71:

veram potentiam augere,

Tac. A. 4, 41 (Halm, augeri).—Hence, auctus, a, um, P. a., enlarged, increased, great, abundant; in posit. only as subst.:

auctum vocabatur spatium, quod super definitum modum victoriae adjungitur,

Paul. Ex Fest. p. 14 Müll. — Comp.:

tanto mi aegritudo auctior est in animo,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 2:

auctior est animi vis,

Lucr. 3, 450:

auctior et amplior majestas,

Liv. 4, 2; 3, 68; 25, 16:

auctius atque Di melius fecere,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 3.—

* Sup.: auctissima basis, Treb. Gall. 18.— Adv. probably not in use, for in App. Met. 4, p. 290 Oud., altius is the correct reading.

macto, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form of perf. subj. mactassint, Enn., Afran., and Pompon. ap. Non. 342, 12 sq.), v. freq. a. [macto, kindr. to Sanscr. makh, mah; intens. māmahyata, to slaughter, sacrifice; maha, victim; the ct in macto like vectum from veho; hence],

Within the religious sphere, to offer, sacrifice, immolate any thing in honor of the gods:

ferctum Jovi moveto et mactato sic,

Cato, R. R. 134, 2; so id. ib. § 4: pultem dis mactat, Varr. ap. Non. 341, 28:

nigras pecudes,

Lucr. 3, 52:

lectas de more bidentes Cereri,

Verg. A. 4, 57; Varr. ap. Non. 114, 27:

mactatus vitulus concidit propter aras,

Lucr. 2, 353:

manibus divis mactata,

id. 6, 759:

mactata veniet lenior hostia,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 16:

mactata Polyxena,

Ov. M. 13, 448:

trecenti ex dediticiis hostiarum more mactati,

Suet. Aug. 15:

vite caper morsa Bacchi mactandus ad aras,

Ov. M. 15, 114:

suovetaurilia mactanda, Fronto de Fer. Als. 3 Mai.: se Orco,

Liv. 9, 40:

hostium legiones Telluri ac diis Manibus mactandas dabo,

id. 10, 28; cf.:

ruptores pacis ultioni et gloriae,

Tac. A. 2, 13.—

Beyond the relig. sphere.

To present, reward, honor with any thing good or bad: Livius inde redit magno mactatu' triumpho, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 641 (Ann. v. 302 Vahl.):

eos ferunt laudibus et mactant honoribus,

heap honors on, extol, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67 (also ap. Non. 342, 5); id. Vatin. 6, 14; id. Div. 1, 11, 18.—

Far more freq. in a bad sense, to afflict, trouble, punish with any thing: illum di deaeque magno mactassint malo, Enn. ap. Non. 342, 15 (Trag. v. 377 Vahl.); Afran. ib. 16; Cic. Vatin. 15, 36; cf. without abl., Pompon. ib. 12:

dotatae mactant et malo et damno viros,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 61; cf.:

mactare malo adficere significat,

Non. 342, 8:

aliquem infortunio,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 14: faxo tali eum mactatum, atque hic est, infortunio, * Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 39:

hostes patriae aeternis suppliciis vivos mortuosque mactabis,

pursue, punish, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 33; cf.:

divisores omnium tribuum domi ipse suae crudelissima morte mactaret,

id. Harusp. Resp. 20, 42:

aliquem summo supplicio,

id. ib. 1, 11, 27:

aliquem morte,

id. Rep. 2, 35, 60:

mactantur comminus uno exitio,

Sil. 17, 500.—

To kill, slaughter, put to death:

hic mactat Ladona, Pheretaque Demodocumque,

Verg. A. 10, 413:

illigatas mollibus damas plagis,

Mart. 1, 50, 24: haec dextra Lernam taetra mactata excetra Pacavit, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22.—

To magnify; trop, to extol, glorify, honor; esp. to glorify [p. 1094] honor a deity with sacrifices, to worship:

Liberum patrem fanorum consecratione mactatis,

Arn. 1, 24:

puerorum extis deos manes mactare,

Cic. Vatin. 6, 14.—

Poet., to give splendor to a festival: lacte Latinas, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18.—

Aliquem or aliquid, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Cic. Fl. 22, 52:

quorum ego furori nisi cessissem, in Catilinae busto vobis ducibus mactatus essem,

should have been sacrificed, id. ib. 7, 16:

perfidos et ruptores pacis ultioni et gloriae mactandos,

to offer up, immolate, Tac. A. 2, 13:

cum videant jus civitatis illo supplicio esse mactatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26: aut naves uram, aut castra mactabo, to destroy, Att. ap. Non. 341, 18.—Hence, mactus, a, um, Part., sync. for mactatus:

boves mactae,

Lucr. 5, 1339 (better referred to maco, q. v.).

pasco, pāvi, pastum, 3, v. a. and n. [root pa-; Sanscr. gō-pas, herdsman; Gr. pateomai; cf. pabulum, pastor, Pales, panis; perh. also, Penates, penum], to cause to eat, to feed, pasture.

Lit.

Of animals, to pasture, drive to pasture, to feed, attend to the feeding of, etc. (cf. pabulor):

cum sues puer pasceret,

Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31:

greges armentaque pavit,

Ov. M. 6, 395:

non, me pascente, capellae, cytisum carpetis,

Verg. E. 1, 78:

turpes sub gurgite phocas,

id. G. 4, 395:

ut pasceret porcos,

Vulg. Luc. 15, 15. —

= depasco, of land, to pasture, give as a pasture:

et vomere duros Exercent collis atque horum asperrima pascunt,

Verg. A. 11. 319.—

In gen., to feed, supply with food:

quot greges et quantos sit pasturus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 24:

bestias pascere,

Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14:

a quo (Catone) cum quaereretur, quid maxime in re familiari expediret? respondit: Bene pascere. Quid secundum? Satis bene pascere. Quid tertium? Male pascere,

id. ib. 2, 25, 89:

quid refert, quantum pascat aut feneret?

Sen. Ep. 2, 5:

plures calones atque caballi Pascendi,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 103.—

To feed, nourish, maintain, support (syn.:

alo, nutrio): olusculis nos soles pascere,

used to feed us with vegetables, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13:

quos, dives Anagnia, pascis, quos, Amasene pater,

Verg. A. 7, 684:

servi, ad quos pascendos transmarinarum regionum est optanda fertilitas,

Sen. Ep. 17, 3; so,

servos,

Juv. 3, 141:

viginti ventres pasco et canem,

Petr. 57:

nullā provinciarum pascente Italiam,

Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 15: Juv. 7, 93.—Of one who gives frequent entertainments, to feast, entertain:

cum plurimos suis sumptibus pasceret,

Spart. Hadr. 17; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 41: se sutoris arte pascere, earn a living, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8.—Rarely of things:

et volsis pascunt radicibus herbae (sc. me),

Verg. A. 3, 650.—

To cherish, cultivate, let grow, feed, etc.— Poet.: barbam, i.e. to cherish, to let grow, pôgônotrophein, Hor. S. 2, 3, 35:

sacrum (Baccho) crinem,

Verg. A. 7, 391:

genas Phoebo, crinem Iaccho,

Stat. Th. 8, 493:

Danaas paverunt Pergama flammas,

fed, Ov. M. 14, 467:

ubi Taurica dira Caede pharetratae pascitur ara deae,

id. Tr. 4, 4, 63:

polus dum sidera pascet,

Verg. A. 1, 608; Luc. 10, 258:

umbra pascens sata,

Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 90:

brevitate crassitudinem pascens,

Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 13:

agros,

to till, cultivate, Mart. 10, 58, 9:

nummos alienos,

to keep adding to, heap debt on debt, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 35.—

Of animals, to graze, browse ( poet.):

pascentes capellae,

Verg. E. 3, 96:

columbae,

id. A. 6, 199:

saltibus in vacuis pascunt,

id. G 3, 143:

sed tunc pascebant herbosa Palatia vaccae,

Tib. 2, 5, 25:

ire vis, mula, pastum foras,

Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 22.—Esp.

In pass. reflex., with dep. force:

cetera pascuntur viridis armenta per herbas,

Verg. G. 3, 162:

pascitur in magnā Silā formosa juvenca,

id. ib. 3, 219:

frondibus et victu pascuntur simplicis herbae,

id. ib. 3, 528:

carice pastus acutā,

id. ib. 3, 231; 341:

si pulli non pascentur,

Liv. 6, 41, 8:

iterum pasto pascitur ante cibo,

chews the cud, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 17 sq. —

Like depascere, with acc.:

silvas,

Verg. G. 3, 314:

mala gramina,

id. A. 2, 471:

apes arbuta,

id. G. 4, 181:

beluae pastae radices fruticum,

Plin. 9, 3, 2, § 7.—

Trop.

To feast, to gratify:

quos P. Clodii furor rapinis et incendiis et omnibus exitiis pavit,

Cic. Mil. 2, 3:

alicujus cruciatu atque supplicio pascere oculos animumque exsaturare,

to feast, id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65; cf.:

in ejus corpore lacerando... oculos paverit suos,

id. Phil. 11, 3, 8; Sen. Ep. 6, 6, 25:

animum picturā pascit inani,

Verg. A. 1, 464:

spes inanes,

to cherish, id. ib. 10, 627.—Of style:

omnia quasi eodem cibo pasta,

Petr. S. 2.—

Pass. reflex.:

his ego rebus pascor, his delector,

feast myself, Cic. Pis. 20, 45:

pasci discordiis civium et seditione,

id. Sest. 46, 99:

ego hic pascor bibliothecā Fausti,

id. Att. 4, 10, 1:

qui maleficio et scelere pascuntur,

live by, id. Off. 2, 11, 40:

otia corpus alunt: animus quoque pascitur illis,

Ov. P. 1, 4, 21:

pasci dolore alicujus,

id. M. 6, 280.—

To lay waste, ravage, desolate:

vestros campos,

Liv. 25, 12:

et pascent terram Assur in gladio,

Vulg. Mic. 5, 6; cf.:

pasce populum tuum in virgā tuā,

id. ib. 7, 14.