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σωρ-εύω ,
A.heap one thing on another, “τι πρός τι” Arist.Rh.1390b18; “ἐπὶ τοῦ κοσκίνου τὰ τεθλιμμένα” Dsc.4.150; “ἄλλον ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ πλοῦτον” Luc. Epigr.12.6; “ἄνθρακας ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος” LXX Pr.25.22, Ep.Rom. 12.20; “περὶ τὸ σῶμα λάφυρα” Plu.Pel.33; “νεκρούς” D.S.12.62; “πλοῦτον” Id.1.62, cf. 5.46, Phld.Oec.p.45 J.:—Pass., Arist.GC325b22, Plb.16.11.4; “οὐσίας πλῆθος -εύεται” Epicur.Fr.480.
II. heap with something, c. gen., “αἰγιαλοὶ σεσωρευμένοι τινῶν” Plb.16.8.9: c. dat., “ς. βωμοὺς λιβάνῳ” Hdn.4.8.9; “αὐχένας στέμμασι” AP7.233 (Apollonid.): metaph., “γυναικάρια σεσωρευμένα ἁμαρτίαις” 2 Ep.Ti.3.6.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.62
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