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cŏ-ăcervo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I.to heap together, heap up, collect in a mass (class., esp. in prose; most freq. in Cic.).
I. Prop.: “pecuniae coguntur et coacervantur,” Cic. Agr. 2, 27, 70; cf. id. ib. 1, 5, 14: “quantum (argenti, etc.) in turbā et rapinis coacervari unā in domo potuit,” id. Rosc. Am. 46, 133: “tantam vim emblematum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54: “multitudinem civium,” id. ib. 2, 5, 57, § “148: cadavera,” Caes. B. G. 2, 27; cf.: “hostium cumulos,” Liv. 22, 7, 5: “armorum cumulos,” id. 5, 39, 1: omnis res aliquo, Auct. B. Afr. 91: bustum, * Cat. 64, 363: “summas,” Dig. 17, 1, 36.—Sarcastically: agros non modo emere verum etiam coacervare, not merely to purchase (perh. to sell again), but to heap, collect together in a mass, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66 Orell.—
II. Trop.: “argumenta,” Cic. Part. Or. 11, 40: luctus, * Ov. M. 8, 485: “errores,” Lact. 5, 1, 7.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 2.27
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.25.66
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 46.133
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.54
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.27.70
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.485
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 39.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 7
    • Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae, 11.40
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