I.to raise a mound, dam, or dike; to heap up (class.; cf.: acervo, coacervo, cumulo, aggero).
I. Lit.: “aggesta humo planitiem,” Curt. 6, 5: “terram,” Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 139: “clivum super capita columnarum,” id. 36, 14, 21, § 96: “locum operibus,” to surround with ramparts, Vitr. 10, 22: “pluribus stramentis exaggerandum est aviarium,” to be abundantly filled, supplied, Col. 8, 11, 9.—
B. Transf., to enlarge, increase by heaping up: “rem familiarem,” Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92; so, “magnas opes,” Phaedr. 3, prol. 25.—
II. Trop.: hic alteri alteris mortem morti exaggerabant, they mutually heaped up death upon death, Auct. B. Hisp. 5 fin.—Far more freq.,
B. Transf., to exalt, amplify, heighten, magnify, exaggerate: “nihil est ad exaggerandam et amplificandam orationem accommodatius, quam, etc.,” Cic. de Or. 3, 27; cf.: “oratio nimis alta et exaggerata (opp. humilis et abjecta),” id. Or. 59, 192: “quasi exaggerata altius oratio (with elatio et altitudo orationis),” id. Brut. 17, 66: “artem oratione,” id. de Or. 1, 55; cf. “beneficium verbis,” id. Planc. 29, 71: “immanitatem parricidii vi orationis,” Quint. 9, 2, 53: “injuriam nostram,” id. 6, 2, 23: “animus excelsus et altus et virtutibus exaggeratus,” Cic. Par. 5 fin.: “Xenocrates exaggerans tanto opere virtutem, extenuans cetera et abiciens,” id. Tusc. 5, 18, 51: “auctae exaggerataeque fortunae,” id. Cat. 4, 9 fin.: “juventam alicujus honoribus,” Vell. 2, 129, 2. Hence, *
1. exaggĕranter , adv., with many words, Tert. de Carn. Chr. 19.—
2. exaggĕrā-tus , a, um, P. a., cumulated, heightened, elevated (very seldom): “exaggerata verborum volubilitate,” Petr. 124, 3.—Comp., Gell. 13, 24, 25; cf. ib. § 9.
