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strŭes , is, f. id.,
I.a heap, pile of things put together.
I. In gen. (class.; “syn.: acervus, cumulus, congeries): laterum,” Cic. Att. 5, 12, 3: “corporum,” Liv. 23, 5; Tac. H. 2, 70; 3, 83: “lignorum,” Liv. 21, 37; Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 53: “arma cum telis in strue mixta,” Ov. P. 2, 1, 40: “rogi,” a funeral pile, pyre, Tac. G. 27; Luc. 8, 757; Sen. Phoen. 112; id. Oedip. 33: “uvarum,” Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 51 et saep.: “(milites Macedones) confusa strue implicantur,” a heap, mass, phalanx, Liv. 44, 41, 7.—Collect., with a verb in the plur.: LOCVS QVO EA STRVES CONGERANTVR, i. e. piles of wood, Cenot. Pis. I. (in Inscr. Orell. 642).—
II. In partic., in relig. lang., a heap of little offering-cakes: “strues genera liborum sunt, digitorum conjunctorum non dissimilia, qui superjecta panicula in transversum continentur,” Fest. p. 310 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. ferctum, p. 85; cf. Cato, R. R. 134, 2; 141, 4; Ov. F. 1, 276; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. p. 403.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 5.12.3
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.70
    • Tacitus, Germania, 27
    • Lucan, Civil War, 8.757
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.51
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.53
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 37
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 44, 41
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 5
    • Seneca, Oedipus, 33
    • Seneca, Phoenissae, 112
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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